Real Real Gone

Duff McDonald
13 min readDec 8, 2021

By DUFF MCDONALD

This was my daughter’s favorite song when she was six years old. She thought “took my baby to the hop last night” was referring to her, my baby girl.

If you’re trolling around online in search of insight into the post-pandemic era, it won’t take you too long to find stories about “The Great Resignation.” Like all good memes, once floated, the idea immediately saturated the Internet like a tablespoon of salt in a pot of warm water. It’s already got its own page on Wikipedia.

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Duff McDonald

New York-based journalist and author of Tickled (Oct 2021), Frictionless (2020), The Golden Passport (2017), The Firm (2013), and Last Man Standing (2009).