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My Annual Performance, as Reviewed by My Dog

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By Erica Lies
| McSweeney's Verified
Please rate Erica on a scale of 1-5 on how she demonstrates the following: CONSISTENCY: 5 Erica does fantastic treat work, always offering me a tasty morsel after walks, even though she doesn’t contribute to our daily quota for eating grass. PUNCTUALITY: 2 Erica often delays leaving the house because of something she calls a “job,” which, from the best I can discern, is just staring at (and sometimes talking to) a glowing screen.
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Rice Krispies Treat Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwiches

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By Erica Lies
| McSweeney's Verified
There are innumerable ways to cope with the particular malaise of job burnout. Some people do spa treatments, others prefer the endless scroll of TikTok, but personally, I turn to unfettered capitalism. There is no work stress that I cannot numb under the bright lights of a Target, staring at a KitchenAid mixer as if it could fix me. More recently, my burnout salve has been pining for tasty treats at high-end grocery stores.
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Reviews of New Food: Trolli Gummi Pops

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By Erica Lies
| McSweeney's Verified
As a child, my secret “cool kid” skill was the ability to eat the sourest candy—the kind that children only pop into their mouths when dared by the neighborhood bully—and shrug it off like it was absolutely nothing. The mean kids would encourage me to eat yet another Warhead or Tear Jerker, but I’d wolf it and stare back at their surprised faces without so much as an eye twitch. I not only tolerated the sourness well, I reveled in it.
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