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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 10 JUNE 2009
You call it "quiet quitting".
Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody can tell the difference. That's the bad news.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You're not a CEO. You're one person with a logo, a free email account…
- When life gives you lemons, it sends the invoice later. With interest.
- Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams than you've had about anything since…
- Your step counter used to set goals. Now it just sends "Hello?" like a…
- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
- Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people. All of them are "just seeing…
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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