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THE ARCHIVE OF PROBLEMS
ASK ZACK / Career
“My manager replies to everyone else's messages with full sentences and exclamation marks. Mine get "ok." Last week she praised the whole team in a meeting and listed…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Career
“I'm 52 and I've worked in sales for 28 years. I'm tired of it. I've always been interested in teaching, and I volunteer at a youth football club…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Parenting
“My kids are 8 and 11 and they would happily spend every waking hour on a tablet or a games console. Every time I try to limit it…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Relationships
“My boyfriend and I moved in together four months ago. He's lovely, but he leaves dishes "to soak" for days. Not hours. Days. A pan has been soaking…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Marriage
“We've been married eleven years. For the last three, my husband has snored so loudly that I've started sleeping on the sofa "just for tonight" about four nights…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Other
“I had a polite disagreement with my neighbour about where they park their car. The next day, their WiFi network changed its name to "NUMBER 12 COMPLAINS A…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Career
“Zack, I've been at the same job for eight years. I'm good at it, my manager likes me, and I've had two pay rises that barely covered inflation.…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Existential Crisis
“Lately I've been wondering what the point of it all is. Not in a dark way, just in a Tuesday afternoon way. I wake up, commute, sit in…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Relationships
“I'm in a group chat with my four closest friends from university. Whenever I post something, nobody replies. Then an hour later someone posts a meme and gets…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Productivity
“I have a dissertation due in five weeks and I've written 400 words. I've cleaned my flat, reorganised my bookshelf by colour, watched a full documentary about tunnels,…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Money
“I earn a decent salary. Not huge, but decent. Somehow, by the 20th of every month, I'm checking my balance before buying a sandwich. I don't have expensive…”
SEE THE VERDICT →ASK ZACK / Fitness
“I joined a gym in January. I've been twice. Both times I walked around for ten minutes pretending to look for something, used the treadmill for a bit,…”
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