Work is dangerous!

This Week's Top 10 Reasons to Call in Sick:

1. Meetings are slowly killing you. (The Guardian, Jan. 17)
2. Your office keyboard has 254 times more germs than your office toilet seat. (PC För alla, Jan. 19)
3. You've got a 50/50 chance of a workplace beatdown. (PhysOrg.com, Jan. 18)
4. Your job may drive you to drink. (New York Times, Jan. 17)

5. Workplace stress will make you catch a virus. (Health24.com, Jan. 14)
6. Jan. 24 has been voted the most depressing working day of the year. (Online Recruitment, Jan. 18)
7. Your steamy office romance is ruining the company. (Arizona Business Gazette, Jan. 19)
8. Office sports pools make you lazy and unproductive. (The Globe and Mail, Jan. 18)
9. Your coworkers are probably on drugs. (KPUA, Jan. 14)
10. And if you complain about any of it, you could be fired. (BBC, Jan. 19)

But look on the bright side. Your job could always be worse —a maggot-farm carrion turner, a nightclub toilet unclogger, a telemarketer of defective Bic pens, etc. (MetroActive, Jan. 18)

P.S. Happy 22nd birthday to my little bro-in-law, FluffyBear: King of the Nubs. Since I met you when you were 13 years old, you have taught me the Zen of gaming, the power of the banhammer, and that it's okay to puke in Disneyland. Love ya, kiddo. ^___^