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1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Roby D'Ottavi

   I strutted to my interview at the bottle shop. It turned out to be a humiliation ritual (opens the original)

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   You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. You may have heard this one before. It goes a little something like: “No one wants to work anymore.” It’s a post-pandemic cliche, born from the belief that people – especially young people – grew too comfortable on JobSeeker and JobKeeper and became lazy, and miraculously allergic to the workplace. I was on JobKeeper during lockdown – I had been working at a high-end fashion store that was, shocki

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2. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Roby D'Ottavi

   I love eavesdropping but there are things I shouldn’t have to hear in public (opens the original)

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   You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Last week, I found myself sitting between two groups of French people who didn’t know each other. Their melodic dialect swayed as if we were sitting on the banks of the Seine. In reality, we were at Abbotsford Convent. They didn’t know I was eavesdropping, and were no doubt a little more unfiltered in expecting that the people around them wouldn’t understand French. And they were right, I didn’t u

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