"A collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all."

Being a senior associate, I know have some moderate authority to assign work to the younger associates.

I had a particularly nasty batch of research projects coming up, and I singled out one of the Chippendales Associates to be the heavy-lifter on those.

Then he got sick with a disease I'd never heard of, and will be out of the office for quite some time.

So, not only am I now taking the lead on those research projects, but I had three monster cases of his fall into my lap.

Now *I* have to get sick to buck all these cases to someone else.

But I'm aiming low - just the flu, thank you.