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WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 1962
Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question".
Zack has read your ideas. Zack would like them escorted from the building.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your job title will outlive you. It's already been posted on LinkedIn, with a…
- You've been "circling back" since March. At this point you're space debris.
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- You sent "lol" to avoid having feelings. It worked. You feel nothing, said nothing,…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- You put "open to work" on LinkedIn. Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were…
- Sleep when the baby sleeps. Also pay the mortgage when the baby pays the…
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