You've been in Corporate America Too Long When...
1. You ask the waiter what the restaurant's core competencies are. 
2. You decide to re-organize 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 write executive summaries on your love letters. 
7. Your Valentine's Day cards have bullet points. 
8. You celebrate your wedding anniversary by conducting a performance review. 
9. You calculate your own personal cost of capital. 
10. You talk to the waiter about process flow when dinner arrives late. 
11. You refer to your previous life as "my sunk cost." 
12. You start to feel sorry for Dilbert's boss. 
13. You account for your tuition as a capital expenditure instead of an expense. 
14. You insist that you do some more market research before you and your spouse produce another child. 
15. At your last family reunion, you wanted to have an emergency meeting about their brand equity. 
16. You ask the car salesman if the car comes with a white board and Internet connection. 
17. You give constructive feedback to your dog.
 

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