10. You and your customer BOTH maintain authoritative sets of the same engineering drawings.

9. Purchasing, Quality, and Engineering just sent three different versions of the same drawing to your label house.

8. Engineering is using gage blocks for doorstops.

7. Your bench techs think ESD is a psychic phenomenon.

6. All your inspectors are at the customer's site, inspecting parts you shipped last week.

5. Your VP of GMP Regulatory Affairs thinks "Total Recall" is just an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.

4. Your lead field tech just remodeled his house with proceeds from spare parts sales.

3. QC trend analysis has revealed that bell-bottoms are back in style, but tattoos are fading.

2. Inspection thinks cosmetic damage can be reversed by using sunblock with a higher SPF.

1. Your MRB cage houses six boxes of company party supplies, a flocked Christmas tree, $4,000,000 worth of raw materials of unknown origin and date, and a stuffed marlin.

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