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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 2 JANUARY 1985
Your job title will outlive you.
It's already been posted on LinkedIn, with a better salary.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You're not a CEO. You're one person with a logo, a free email account…
- Love is patient. Your partner is not, and has started a note on their…
- Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. Your overdraft found it first.…
- You negotiated your broadband bill down by $3 a month. The call took 94…
- You call yourself "a bit of a foodie". You've ordered the same chicken 64…
- You said you're "built different". You're built the same. Just assembled worse.
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
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