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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 13 MARCH 2002
Your squad misses you, says the notification.
Your squad is four strangers and a retention dashboard.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- “I'm here for the right reasons.” The reasons are a teeth-whitening deal and a…
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- You said you're "so busy" this week. Your screen time says eleven hours a…
- They're taking time away from social media. You know because they posted about it…
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