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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 10 OCTOBER 1999
You put "open to work" on LinkedIn.
Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were bots. The sixth was your ex, checking you're doing worse.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- There's no I in team. There are two in "invoice still unpaid". And one…
- You're "on a gap year". It's your third.
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- Love is patient. Your partner is not, and has started a note on their…
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