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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 5 OCTOBER 1957
Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front.
Hers was "I have a hard stop at 8:15". Yours was hoping she'd forget. She set an alarm.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- They say sweat is weakness leaving the body. Yours has decided to stay.
- Every Monday you swear this week will be different. You've sworn it nine hundred…
- Mistakes were made. Nobody made them. They just happened, like weather.
- They'll hold a minute's silence for you at the all-hands. It will be the…
- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
- Your step counter used to set goals. Now it just sends "Hello?" like a…
- Mistakes were made. Nobody made them. They just happened, like weather.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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