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Live Edition · Tuesday, July 14, 2026 · 27 stories live

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Issue · Jul 14
Work / Filed under: Jun 30
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He has been trying to get fired for six months. He has been promoted twice.

A senior engineer at a Bay Area software company decided in December that he wanted out. He has been, in careful escalating fashion, trying to get himself fired ever since. His performance metrics keep going up.…

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Love / Filed under: Jun 29
02

She matched with her own husband on Hinge. He was single. She was not.

A woman in Nashville matched with her husband of eleven years on Hinge. He was, according to his profile, single. Never married. Looking for something serious. She was — very obviously — not single. She has…

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Internet / Filed under: Jun 26
03

She has been getting Ring notifications from a doorbell that isn’t hers. She has come to know the family.

A woman in Sacramento has, for eleven months, been receiving push notifications from a Ring doorbell somewhere in Ohio. She has never installed the app. Nobody knows why the notifications come to her phone. She has,…

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A man expensed his therapy as "professional development." It worked.

Good morning. It's a Tuesday, which means somewhere out there, a person is right now justifying a purchase they cannot afford with a logic they cannot defend.

This morning's offender: a project manager in Austin who put twelve weeks of therapy on his corporate card under "leadership coaching." Finance approved it. His therapist had no idea.

Today's lesson in the great American workplace: the line between a perk and a heist is mostly just confidence...

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