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WEDNESDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER 2010
Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been quiet".
You weren't. You were just talking to nobody.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The in-office lunch is optional. The man with the clipboard and no sandwich is…
- Unlimited holiday is a lovely policy. The company did the maths on your guilt,…
- Your savings account isn't empty. It's a memorial.
- Mondays aren't so bad. They're just Sundays that opened their bank statement.
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- You said "that's so me" about a horoscope. It also described 600 million other…
- Your boss hasn't taken a sick day in ten years. He has, however, given…
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