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My Weirdest Year Yet - by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

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AWM #58: On 2021, escaping the neat boxes of society, writing a lot, and other misc weirdness 👾

It is early January 2021. I am writing my annual performance evaluation for my software job. Ever since the work became from home, I went from “I’m so lucky to be working here” to “I hate this so much.” I’ve been fantasizing a lot about quitting. But should I actually do it? It seems financially unwise. Worse, it seems weird. Who the hell quits a good job during a pandemic? But I also can’t really pretend anymore. So I decide to fill the performance evaluation questions in an unorthodox format. I write my answers as a play, a dialogue between characters with pseudo-Italian names. It is…

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