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• 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. Your Valentine's Day cards have bullet points.
  

• 7. You celebrate your wedding anniversary by conducting a performance review.
  

• 8. You believe you never have any problems in your life, just "issues" and "improvement opportunities."
  

• 9. You explain to your bank manager that you prefer to think of yourself as "highly leveraged" as opposed to "in debt."
  

• 10. You end every argument by saying, "let's talk about this off-line."
  

• 11. You can explain to somebody the difference between "re-engineering," "down-sizing," "right-sizing," and "firing people."
  

• 12. You refer to your significant other as "my Co-CEO."
  

• 13. You start to feel sorry for Dilbert's boss.
  

• 14. You believe the best tables and graphs take an hour to comprehend.
  

• 15. You insist that you do some more market research before you and your spouse produce another child.
  

• 16. You use the terms "value-added," “90-percent solution,” and “low hanging fruit” without falling down laughing.

Funny one!

I think engineering must have been infiltrated by MBAs. We have meetings to schedule meetings. The graphs are complicated 3D multicolored monstrosities that the presenter flashes for about a millisecond and then wants you to comment on it.

LOL That's great!