masterwordsmith-unplugged

1. You refer to the yield of the tomato plants in your home garden as "deliverables"
2. You can tell the copier repair person at the client site exactly what's wrong with the machine and what parts need to be replaced
3. The new client staff come to you for information on how to start the coffee machine.
4. You've succeeded in memorizing the morning and afternoon schedules of two major airlines' flights to your client's site
5. You can execute five complex tasks simultaneously, but you can't remember what you had for breakfast that morning
6. You have enough "vendor" ID badges for a royal flush and two pair
7. You know all the late night security guards at the client site on a first name basis (replace "security guards" with "cleanup staff" or "swing-shift mainframe operators" as you choose)
8. You use so many acronyms you no longer know which are your company's, the client's or the software vendor's
9. You feel naked without a laptop hanging from your left shoulder
10. The project partner tries to hire you
11. You forego the opportunity to fly home on the weekend, because you really like it in Southfield, MI. (Schaumburg, IL...Bethesda, MD...Norwood, MA...Harrisburg, PA)
12. You say "Whoopee! Half day!" when you leave at 10:00PM
13. Your kids point at the phone and say "...that's the one that's broken" when you get home, thinking you must be from the NYNEX, 'cause you sure don't look familiar
14. You start thinking that life in the US Navy Submarine Corps would give you more time at home
15. You start referring to your PC by a cute name
16. You are upset when you come home on Friday night and the lights aren't on, the bed isn't turned down, and there are no chocolates on your pillow
17. You fantasize about zero-billing
18. "Vacationing" is spending an entire weekend in your own home
19. You can call room service and order multiple entrees without looking at the menu;
20. Writers for the OAG call you to verify flight numbers and times
21. You have seen more movies at 35,000 feet than you have at General Cinemas (replace Gen. Cin. with your local movie theater)
22. You have had more phone numbers than Imelda Marcos has pairs of shoes;
23. The media phrases "telecommuting" and "virtual office" have very real (and frightening) meaning for you
24. You forget how to turn on the windshield wipers in your own car
25. New staff point at you and say, "... that's him, that's the old guy ... "

Part 2 will be posted tomorrow morning at 6.00 a.m. Have a nice day!