Living in 2009 and laughing

Business Management words of wisdom:-
Evolve with time or be a dinosaur.

I started working in the Program & Business Management environment since 1990 while we were still using faxes and transparencies. I had to carry very heavy luggage during any oversea business trips as the communications and files are in hardcopy papers with several transparencies for each company that I visited.

For those younger generations, faxes were received at a centralised fax machine for in-bound and outbound letters where an operator will be required to read the content. If the fax attentioned to me have 3 other names to be cc to, the operator will photocopy 3 sets and placed it into the respective pigeon hole for the respective department to collect. The amount of A4 papers used was fantastic and keeps piling up in my office as we have to file these hardcopy document.

Transparencies are A4 sized transparent plastic sheets used for placing our presentation materials which are later placed on a powerful light source that project the image/ information onto a screen.

We can travel very light now on a PC notebook.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2009 when...

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. Password is also required for office photocopier machines nowadays.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years. In fact , many had been playing alone against the computers.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3, but you do not memories all the phone numbers.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you. Skype chat or MSN Messager is the favorite here.

5. With web's help, you can communicate in any languages to the foreign person who sits at the desk next to you.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries. Door bells becomes obsolete.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen. Any company that does not have website are fake.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee. You have to go on line before going to sleep too.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly how to write foul rude words without being foul like ^&#$%^&*+_)(*.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses. Greetings cards are sent on softcopies only.

16. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list

AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself.


Kacak5 Management