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SATURDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 1994
Dress for the job you want.
The job you have will see you in at nine, in a lanyard, until retirement or restructure. Bet on restructure.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- You film "Sunday reset" videos. By Tuesday your room has reset itself, to Saturday.
- Your bio says "foodie, traveller, dreamer". You've been abroad once, and you still talk…
- Make your money work for you. Yours quit in 2019. It works for your…
- You say "it's not that deep" a lot. Your Notes app has 300 entries…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- You said "we move". You've lived in the same bedroom since you were nine.
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