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MONDAY, 20 APRIL 1998
Your step counter used to set goals.
Now it just sends "Hello?" like a relative checking you're still alive.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- “Just one more game” of FIFA was the most dishonest sentence in the English…
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- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- You put "open to work" on LinkedIn. Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were…
- They'll hold a minute's silence for you at the all-hands. It will be the…
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