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WEDNESDAY, 10 OCTOBER 1984
You said you're "booked and busy".
Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching a show you've already seen four times.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- Nobody has ever said "thank goodness it's Monday". Except a manager, and he meant…
- The bins are now fortnightly. The council tax is still monthly.
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- You're ageing like a fine wine. Expensive, slightly sour, best kept in the dark,…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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