corporate-wage-slave

Longer than that. My late father used to work in the field of mainframes, whereas my mother is a total Luddite (unlike her own mother). For a series of weeks, when I was a kid, we would get panicky phone calls every Sunday afternoon due to trouble with the machines. In the end, having heard my dad's own typical response, she would answer these calls asking for my dad with "Well he's down the allotment, so I suggest you IPL and start again" and with that slammed down the phone. Generally her solution worked.