If nothing else we all need a little humor to get through life's difficult times.

http://www.doit.state.ct.us/y2k/humor.htm

The Digital Hillbillies

(sung to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies)

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed, A poor college kid, barely kept his family fed, But then one day he was talking to a recruiter, Who said, "they pay big bucks if ya work on a computer..." UNIX, that is... NT ... Workstations ...

Well, the first thing ya know ol' Jed's an Engineer. The kinfolk said "Jed, move away from here". They said "Arizona is the place ya oughta be", So he bought some donuts and he moved to Ahwatukee... Intel, that is... dry heat... no amusement parks...

On his first day at work, they stuck him in a cube. Fed him more donuts and sat him at a tube. They said "your project's late, but we know just what to do. Instead of 40 hours, we'll work you 52!" OT, that is... unpaid... mandatory...

The weeks rolled by and things were looking bad. Schedules started slipping and some managers were mad. They called another meeting and decided on a fix. The answer was simple... "We'll work him sixty-six!" Tired, that is... stressed out... no social life...

Months turned to years and his hair was turning grey. Jed worked very hard while his life slipped away. Waiting to retire when he turned 64, Instead he got a call and was escorted out the door. Laid off, that is... de-briefed... unemployed...

Now the moral of the story is listen to what you're told, Companies will use you and discard you when you're old. So gather up your friends and all and open your own firm, Beat the competition, watch the bosses squirm. Millionaires, that is...

Y'all come back now... ya hear?

Author unknown

I'll see everyone another day. I hope your Millennium Celebration is full of happiness. I wish you all the best of luck, a new year free of incident, and another year full of potential. After all this maybe we can still be civil to each other.

No hard feelings... okay?

Cheers, with rum and coke in hand...

Doomers@suck.com

=o)

-- (anon@anon.anon), December 30, 1999

Answers

Cheers!! at least in a couple of more hours anyway :) still theoreticaly at work :)

The show is going to be interesting, I'm sure...

-- C (c@c.com), December 30, 1999.

No hard feelings. Good luck. And maybe, with any luck, we'll all still be around to be civil to each other...

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), December 30, 1999.

DELETE!

-- (DELETE@DELETE.DELETE), December 30, 1999.