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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
MONDAY, 10 JULY 2006
The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday.
Forty replies. Four mention you. None kindly.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- Step outside your comfort zone. It's raining out there, everything costs more, and nobody…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
- You say you're "an old soul". You're 21. The only old thing about you…
- Every Monday you swear this week will be different. You've sworn it nine hundred…
- There's no I in team. There are two in "invoice still unpaid". And one…
- Your Candy Crush streak is on day 212. The game hasn't been fun since…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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