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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 1962
You put "open to work" on LinkedIn.
Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were bots. The sixth was your ex, checking you're doing worse.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- Growing old is mandatory. Growing up was optional. You ticked "later". This is later.…
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- You asked the internet whether you were the bad guy. The internet read the…
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