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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
TUESDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2000
Your soft launch was a hand in a photo.
The hard launch never came. The hand has since soft-launched someone else.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your complaint has been escalated. It is now ignored by someone more senior.
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- Remember when you stayed up late on purpose? Now you're up at 3am because…
- You're not a CEO. You're one person with a logo, a free email account…
- Your banking app pauses slightly before opening. It's deciding how to tell you.
- Every great company started in a garage. Yours will end there too. The car's…
- The update is 200GB. Your free afternoon was smaller.
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