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FRIDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 1996
You "work best under pressure".
You don't. You just only work under pressure.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your therapist said set boundaries. You set one. Then texted them at 2 a.m.…
- Everything happens for a reason. The reason is you. It's always been you.
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- Your company will send flowers to your funeral. They'll be charged to your department's…
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