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You Know It's Time To Leave Consulting When


You know it is time to get out of consulting when...

1. You ask the waiter what the restaurant's core competencies are.
2. You decide to re-org your family into a "team-based organization."
3. You refer to dating as test marketing.
4. You can spell "paradigm."
5. You actually know what a paradigm is.
6. You understand your airline's fare structure.
7. You write executive summaries on your love letters.
8. You think that it's actually efficient to write a ten page paper with six other people you don't know.
9. You believe every company is "a traditional functional organization, with promotion based on tenure, but one that needs to change as it is facing ever increasing competition..."
10. You believe that a company's problems are never caused by an "ineffective handling of an administrative situation."
11. You believe you never have any problems in your life, just "issues" and "improvement opportunities."
12. You know every single piece of clip art in PowerPoint.
13. You can explain to somebody the difference between "re-engineering," "down-sizing," "right-sizing," and "firing people's asses."
14. You actually believe your explanation in number 13.
15. You enjoy using an HP-12C.
16. You refer to your previous life as "my sunk cost."
17. You like both types of sandwiches: ham and turkey.
18. You believe CAPM is just as important as the Theory of Relativity.
19. You believe CAPM.
20. You start to feel sorry for Dilbert's boss.
21. You believe the best tables and graphs take an hour to comprehend.
22. Your favorite artist is the one who does the dot drawings for the Wall Street Journal.
23. None of your favorite publications have cartoons.
24. At your last family reunion, you wanted to have an emergency meeting about their brand equity.
25. Your "deliverable" for Sunday evening is clean laundry and paid bills
26. You use the term "value-added" without falling down laughing.
27. You ask the car salesman if the car comes with a whiteboard and Internet connection.
28. You give constructive feedback to your dog.


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Submitted on: 16 December 1998 by Jake
Joke ID: 475


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