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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
MONDAY, 20 JUNE 1966
"Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again."
That's also the plan for your job next quarter.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Treat yourself, they said. You did. Four times before lunch. Your pension felt every…
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
- You "don't believe in labels". You believe in being kept as an option.
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- Every relationship has a honeymoon period. Yours was the walk from the bar to…
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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