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TUESDAY, 1 DECEMBER 1964
Someone laminated an "Acceptable Behaviour" poster for the office kitchen.
It will still be on that wall long after your name is off the door.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Quality family time: everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by…
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- Youth is wasted on the young. You wasted yours too. Old age is next,…
- You say "it's not that deep" a lot. Your Notes app has 300 entries…
- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- They'll hold a minute's silence for you at the all-hands. It will be the…
- Your birthday cake now needs a risk assessment. The candles are outnumbering the years…
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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