You know you've been in corporate life too long when...

You know you've been in corporate life too long when...

• You ask the waiter what the restaurant's core competencies are.
• You decide to re-organize your family into a "team-based organization."
• You refer to dating as test marketing.
• You can spell "paradigm."
• You actually know what a paradigm is.

And there's more...

• Your Valentine's Day cards have bullet points.
• You think that it's actually efficient to write a ten page presentation with six other people you don't know.
• You celebrate your wedding anniversary by conducting a performance review.
• You believe you never have any problems in your life, just "issues" and "improvement opportunities."
• You explain to your bank manager that you prefer to think of yourself as "highly leveraged" as opposed to "in debt."
• You end every argument by saying "let's talk about this off-line."
• You talk to the waiter about process flow when dinner arrives late.
• You refer to your previous life as "my sunk cost."
• You refer to your significant other as "my Co-CEO."
• You start to feel sorry for Dilbert's boss.
• You believe the best tables and graphs take an hour to comprehend.
• You insist that you do some more market research before you and your spouse produce another child.