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Another Tuesday Zoom hellscape – Sarah's quarterly budget review felt like watching paint dry in slow motion. My coffee went cold as spreadsheets blurred into gray sludge on screen. Then Mark cleared his throat for the eighteenth time, and something snapped. My thumb slid across the phone screen still warm from my palm, tapped a neon skull icon, and suddenly Darth Vader's mechanical breathing echoed through the call. "I find your lack of revenue... disturbing." Dead silence. Then explosive laugh

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