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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 31 OCTOBER 1982
Till death do us part.
Not a vow. A fixed-term contract with an unspecified end date.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your complaint has been escalated. It is now ignored by someone more senior.
- Your birthday cake now needs a risk assessment. The candles are outnumbering the years…
- Youth is wasted on the young. You wasted yours too. Old age is next,…
- “Too close to call” means nobody knows. It is said by people paid a…
- Monday is a core collaboration day. As, it turns out, is every day ending…
- Your Duolingo owl has stopped threatening you. It's not proud. It's given up. Even…
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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