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MONDAY, 6 MARCH 2000
Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing.
When you leave, someone will fight over the plant.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Work smarter, not harder. You've chosen neither, and HR has a folder.
- Your Duolingo owl has stopped threatening you. It's not proud. It's given up. Even…
- The battle pass costs £9.99 a season. Your childhood cost nothing and had better…
- Your birthday cake now needs a risk assessment. The candles are outnumbering the years…
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- Not all who wander are lost. You are. The map gave up.
- You "grew out of" your old friends. They grew out of waiting for you…
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