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why i should never be asked to run meetings

comrade worker: … okay, we can do that on the website. Is there anything else I should be worried about?
me: [adopting my completely terrible authority voice] Yes.
cw: Yes?!
me: Uh… yes. Yes there is.

[PAUSE]
cw: And that would be?
me: [THINKING FURIOUSLY] Avian flu?
all: Avian WHAT?
me: Potentially pandemic virus? Mortality rate of 55% in humans?
all: [VISIBLY PANICKED] What? Seriously?
me: [TRYING TO REGAIN CONTROL] Yes, yes, but it’s okay, it hasn’t mutated into a human-transmissable airborne disease yet. You can still only get it from … from … [LOOKING AT FRANTICALLY GOOGLING, UTTERLY SHATTERED MEETING] … chickens…

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My employer has enough opinions of its own, without having to have mine too.