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WEDNESDAY, 19 MARCH 1975
Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
They were picked first. You're what was left.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
- Limited-time event. Will not return. Neither will your Saturday.
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- Treat yourself, they said. You did. Four times before lunch. Your pension felt every…
- Someone laminated an "Acceptable Behaviour" poster for the office kitchen. It will still be…
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- Life is short. A measurable chunk of it will be spent in the post…
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