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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
Parenting is ten percent love
and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is. Then they leave and take both.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- Monday motivation is a myth. Like the Loch Ness Monster, a clean office microwave,…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- The consultation runs for twelve weeks. The decision was made in week zero.
- Nobody has ever said "thank goodness it's Monday". Except a manager, and he meant…
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
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