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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 30 OCTOBER 1963
The return to office is completely optional.
So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet there you are, ranked 41st. They're "reviewing" 41st.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your gym membership is the most expensive guilt you've ever bought. It renews automatically.…
- You call your mum "for advice". You call her for the Netflix password.
- Life is short. A measurable chunk of it will be spent in the post…
- Life is short. A measurable chunk of it will be spent in the post…
- A budget is a list of things you're about to do anyway. Written down…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- You rage quit because the game was rigged. You were also just bad. Both…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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