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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 14 FEBRUARY 1987
Your company's core values are printed on the wall.
So nobody has to have them.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
- Running clears your head. Mostly of the idea that you're a runner.
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
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