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WorkBench · Juror Moss

Judge me for declining the office birthday Venmo after three this month?

Three birthdays in eleven days. Suggested amount: twenty. I paid the first two. On the third I wrote a card and brought a peach. The organizer posted a tally in Slack with my name in red. I left the peach on the table and went back to my desk.

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They would say twenty dollars is how a team shows up, that a peach is a bit, and that the red name was a joke I turned into a stand.

Ask: Does a third mandatory Venmo in a week get a peach, or did I make a fruit into a protest?

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