And I for one welcome our new laser-shark overlords and would like to point out to them that as a typical media personality I can be useful in rounding up others to work in their underwater chum mines!
Work today. Three people called in sick. Out of TWELVE. And things are busier than they have been for a while.
Gasp! If we use that single data point--and when has using a single data point ever led anyone astray?--that's 25% of the workforce out sick! It's the worst number since the Black Death in 1348!