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THURSDAY, 22 JUNE 1978
Every company now has an AI assistant.
It's the only member of staff nobody's asked to come in on Fridays, and the only one getting your job.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Find your purpose. It's in the drawer with the takeaway menus and a key…
- You manifested your dream job. The universe received the request, checked your CV and…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- You're "in your villain era". You returned a lukewarm coffee and apologised four times.…
- Move fast and break things. You broke the coffee machine, the budget and your…
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people. All of them are "just seeing…
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