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TUESDAY, 10 AUGUST 2010
"We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise.
One of you will die first. It'll still be pending.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- Be your own boss. Your new boss naps at 2pm, can't pay you, and…
- Core collaboration days started as Tuesday. They now include Wednesday, Thursday, a Friday that's…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- You're "on a gap year". It's your third.
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