Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The Side Effects of being in IT industry for too long

If you have been in IT industry too long these are your symptoms:

 

1.) U use phrases like "No issues" and "Value addition" in everyday parlance. For e.g. When talking about your doodhwalla, U say, "His milk does zero value addition to my health but he is the only guy around so no issues".

 

2.) Ur prime source of entertainment is the forwards send to U by friends whose faces U cant remember.

 

 3.) U drink more tea or coffee than water.

 

4.) U keep trying to shut down ur home computer by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del (used to lock office comps)

 

 5.) When ur mobile rings at home, U rush outside to receive the call.

 

6.) When U make calls at home, U accidentally dial "0"to get an outside line.

 

7.) U haven't played Solitaire with real cards in years.

 

8.) Ur last crush was a girl in HR, ur current crush is the new girl in HR and all ur crushes in the future willbe girls in HR.

 

9.) U spend the entire day reading forwards, smoking cigarettes, drinking tea/coffee and playing T.T. and then complain about the late working hours.

 

10.) Ur important 'meetings' usually comprise two or three people max, including yourself.

 

11) U secretly prepare for CAT only to find ur PL sitting behind you at the exam.

 

13.) U keep pressing Ctrl+Enter wondering why your  gmail is not going.

 

14.) U email ur mate who works at the desk next to U.

 

15.) As U read this list, U r thinking of sending it to ur friends who are also in IT.

 

16.) U r too busy to notice there was no line no. 12

 

17.) U r not sure so u scroll back check it.

 

18.) And now u r smiling!!!!

 

Did you just went over steps 16 to 18 again??

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