Conference rdvax::grateful

	...placing a telephone call from home, you start off by dialing
	"8"...

	A clear sign to me that I've been spending too much time in the 
	office...

	Bob

  answer the phone at home

  "this is john, may I help you"

  wake up in the middle of the night thinking about a project

  ........

You see phantom DECwindows Mail windows flash in front of your eyes.

At home, you answer your phone with "Hello, (name) speaking ...."

- Dave

p.s.  JC, I've done that too

    
    When someone asks you to do something out of the office and you respond
    by saying, "I'll throw it on my batch queue and get to it later".
    
    Happy Cheese-
    Jerry

	When you want to drop a quick line to a freind who lives
	far away, so you think "I'll just send email"...  Then you
	realize your friend doesn't have anything to do with computers,
	let alone know what email is... 

	... when instead of telling someone to feel free to interrupt you,
	you tell 'em to Control-Y you!


	I told some of the writers I work with this and they laughed
	quite hard!

	"Just control-y me if you should need anything."

    ... when you sit in a meeting and the product manager talks for an hour
    and you know what all the acronyms mean.
    

       A couple times I've given them my keycard at the bank instead of
    my bankcard not noticing until they say,"what's this?"
    
    
    Sean

    ...when you have been pulled over by the local constable and he asks
    to see your drivers licence and you don't have it with you and you ask
    if your badge is good enough.....
    ....when you you wear your ground strap into stores and that you start 
    looking for electric blue pants to match your spiffy ESD smock (that is 
    worn into stores etc)...
    ....selling short on DEC stock.
    
    rich

when you show local store owners your badge as you enter thier establishment.

When you don't even think to look in the phone book when you can't find someone 
in ELF.

- Dave

    when it's 5:40 in the aternoon on a beautiful day and you're saying
    "one more topic and i'm out of this file...  i'm not kidding this
    time!"
    
    				da ve
    
    ps. the e-mail one gets me all the time!!

    When your telling someone who has nothing to do with DEC about the most
    recent tour rumor and to get the exact details you turn to the bar and
    look for a terminal to log on at.
    
    	And a week or so earlier you told someone, "just give me your
    address and I'll send you a copy". It's really confusing when they 
    hand you their home address.

    ..when you are driving anywhere and see a vehicle with stickers (you
    already KNOW which kind I mean - admit it!) and you wonder aloud ..
    'wonder what site they work at'
    
    ..when you are recounting a DEC conversation with an 'outsider' and in
    order to clarify the experience you make typing motions with your
    hands.  eeeeeeeeekkk!!
    
    I like this note!!!  Lisa ... I've actually flashed my badge in CWT ...
    no one was impresd .. as a matter of fact, they scowled at me :-( 
    
    

CWT huh?  Well, at least Carol is flashing her badge in classy stores!!  ;^)
I usually stick to Hallmarks and CVS's.  They're not impressed either!  :-)

>                    <<< Note 140.16 by XCUSME::MACINTYRE >>>
>
>    ...when you can remember when Ken used to have lunch in company cafs.
>    
>    ...when 5% raises look BIG.
>    
>    ...when you try to calculate your pension.
>    
>    ...when you earn more vacation days per year than you can afford to
>    take.


How long have you been a DECcie Marv????

re"                    <<< Note 140.16 by XCUSME::MACINTYRE >>>

>    ...when you earn more vacation days per year than you can afford to
>    take.

	This is one concept I'll never understand...  especially at
	DEC where the vacation policy is pathetic at 10 days per year 
	to start.  :-/   10 whole days, wow what a deal.

	I need a show or 2 or 3.
	
	Ken

I was talking with someone who works for DEC in Europe.  He told me they get
42 holidays / year...............

>      <<< Note 140.19 by BIODTL::FERGUSON "Is it just a waste of time?" >>>
>
>I was talking with someone who works for DEC in Europe.  He told me they get
>42 holidays / year...............

Yup.  All of Germany (what was West G) anyway gets 6 weeks == 42 days per year
TO START, over 4 times the time off we get.   No wonder Germany is known for 
quality: the workers are well rested!!   

Ken

Re:          <<< Note 140.18 by FURTHR::HANNAN "Beyond description..." >>>

>	I need a show or 2 or 3.

		... or 4 or 5 or 6 .....

			ME TOO!

Lisa

    
    ....when you can dial the office without looking at the keypad.
     
    ....when you use the words "configuration", and "technology" while
        speaking of everyday things. (I call them Work Words)
    
    I have also caught myself wearing my ground strap after hours, many
    times.
    

    ...when after you're pulled over by the big police and he
    tells you to recite the alphabet for a sobriety check and
    he won't let you finish because you've skipped over g & i ;*)

    When your wondering what time it is and you just think "t" because
    you've had it defined as   show time  for 8 years.

    
       dialing "8" for long distance from home gets me all the time!
    
       when you log in from home to look up a phone number....
    
       when you log in from home to pay your bills... (spreadsheet nerd!)
    
    
    

When you walk around in other parking lots watching out for goose sh*t!






Jim "watching my step" H.

re    <<< Note 140.26 by DASXPS::HENDERSON "Someone's got to turn the page" >>>
  >                   -< Shawn can relate to this I'm sure >-

>When you walk around in other parking lots watching out for goose sh*t!


 That's for sure!!!!


8-)

    ...try to send mail to someone that doesn't even work here!