1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail your mate who works at the desk next to you.

5. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.

6. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.

7. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.

8. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.

10. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

11. Contractors out number permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards. ... and the real clinchers are...

12. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.

13. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends".

14. You are too busy to notice there was no No. 9.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a No.9.

16. You call your son's beeper to let him know its time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, what's for dinner?

17. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next-door neighbor yet this year.

18. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a new screen saver.

19. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.

20. You buy a computer and 6 months later it's out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.

21. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is cause for panic and turning around to go get it.

22. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and takes planning.

23. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.

24. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

25. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.

26. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.

27. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.

28. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.