For all you LLSers out there!

You know you work for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society when:

•Your budget has a 102% increase in gross revenue, and a 250% decrease in expenses.

•You steal office supplies from hotels.

•People from the corporate world think you have an ideal job, but you’ve never been so stressed in your life.

•Your family knows to make a donation to your organization in lieu of holiday/birthday gifts!

•Your friends think you must be rich because you work all the time.

•Regardless of your title, your job responsibilities include everything you know how to do: grant writing, supervision, programming, catering/cooking, sewing, event planning, public relations, cleaning, interior design…

•In order to take an online training, you have to be on your computer AND a phone because those stupid thin clients don’t have speakers!

•You are extremely surprised if given a free sandwich during a lunch meeting.

•You look forward to receiving your mileage reimbursement checks because they are almost as large as your paycheck.

•You answer your phone at home like you would at work because you forgot where you were.

•When windows 2000 is an upgrade.

•First order of business every day is replacing your e-mail signature and Outlook folders because IT has said, ‘we are aware of the problem…please re-load everything yourself.’

•You have app support and the help desk on speed dial.

•You suddenly speak fluent Acronym: HO said the ED or FD will review the SWOT report regarding the IRR procedures with all PSM, TNT, MWOY, S&Y, and LTN staff – it’s in the ACM!

•Toilet paper is rationed the last 6 weeks of the fiscal year.

•Someone is diagnosed with ALL and you know that doesn’t mean that they have ‘everything’

•You know the difference between myeloma and melanoma.

•Opening Society Central means that your entire system will shut down.

•People introduce you as: ‘…from the Lymphoma and Leukemia Association/Foundation/Organization/Group’ or ‘ …from the Pennies for Patients Society’ and you just go with it.

•You’re constantly explaining to people how you get paid working for a non-profit.

•You can count the number of straight male colleagues you have across the country on one hand.

•Conferences are just an excuse to get drunk with your Peer Team and make fun of national staff.

•The printer/copy machine/fax narrowly escapes an ‘Office Space’ fate on a daily basis.

•No matter how many calls you’ve been forced to sit through, some people still don’t understand that it’s *6 to mute and #6 to un-mute.