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Greetings Folks! Yes this problem is real, it's big, it's ugly! and it's no laughing matter! But we're human, and if we cannot find humour in our darkest problems, then we'll become all too able to find darkness in our laughter.

If you really want to ignore the Year 2000 Computer Date problem, here are some canned excuses!

1.You honestly believe the year 2000 isn't a leap year.

2.You're getting into Real Estate.

3.You like midnight phone calls from irate CEO's.

4.You want to surprise your stockholders.

5.You believe a crisis is good for organizations. It brings focus to your work and builds good, strong, team spirit.

6.You think the problem is exaggerated.

7.You've got lots of time, it's only 1996.

8.You didn't really need computers anyway.

9.You're using PC's.

10.It's a hardware problem.

11.Your Mission Critical Systems aren't.

12.Your doctor recommended you reduce your stress.

13.You're addicted to adrenaline.

14.You have a meeting with management next week, honest.

15.The problem doesn't affect your applications.

16.You've made a very large investment in an abacus company.

17.You never liked using computers in the first place.

18.It's not a problem....it's a 'challenge'.

19.You're afraid to deliver the news to your management.

20.You haven't been able to find your management.

21.When you did tell management, they fired you.

22.When you did tell management, they went into cardiac arrest.

23.You're waiting to see what happens before you react.

24.You just installed your systems last year, so you're not affected by the problem. 25.You're moving all your applications to your Nintendo.

26.You believe that if you ignore the problem, it'll go away.

27.You'd rather drink coffee, than champagne on New Year's Eve.

28.You like paying cobol programmers $240K/annum to implement 10 year projects in an afternoon.

29.You believe that a year has 365 working days.

30.You believe that 2000 is years and years away.

31.You believe all these reasons are valid.

32.You hope at least one of these reasons is valid.

33.You enjoyed your grandparent's stories about the Great Depression and would like to experience them for yourself.

34.You're focused on IS strategies ... not day to day support issues.

35.You don't have a CIO in your company.

36.You're not the head of IS you only work here.

37.You are the head of IS and your people assure you there's no problem.

38.You wrote the legacy systems affected and are reluctant to admit the problem exists. 39.When the time comes you'll pay someone else to solve it for you.

40.You're already up to your neck in alligators.

41.You can afford to be without your Account Receivables for a year or two. 42.You're waiting for everyone else to go first.

43.The excitement of watching your systems fail is better than Bungee Jumping without a cord.

44.You're doing the monkey impersonation ... Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil

45.You believe maintenance is for wimps, real managers create new systems.

46.Your Horoscope said you should stay home for all of the year 2000.

47.Your blood pressure is high enough already.

48.You're scheduled to start working on this in 1999.

49.You bought a magic bullet from a software salesperson.

50.Your believe this is all a plot by consultants to create a problem where none exists.

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