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Nothing prepares your soul for the devastating embarrassment of loudly saying goodbye to a coworker and then realizing you are both walking in the exact same direction to your…

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This workplace phenomenon completely shatters the carefully constructed script of social departures. Once the formal goodbye is deployed, human beings generally lack the improvisational skills to seamlessly resume casual conversation, creating an agonizing void.

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