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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-XXXX are quarantined inside a welded steel cube. The cube is to be stored in a passcode-protected locker. All requests to examine or investigate SCP-XXXX are denied.

A containment specialist is to be assigned sole responsibility for SCP-XXXX. The specialist should be chosen from the bottom quadrant of available staff: they must have an Employee Engagement score < 5 and IQ between 80-100.

The specialist will be denied access to SCP-XXXX database entry. They will be informed they are now responsible for an inert, empty steel cube with no anomalous properties, and that the cube is being retained as forensic evidence.

While responsible for SCP-XXXX, the specialist is to be demoted to the title "Temporary Assistant Associate Containment Specialist (TAACS)." This job title is the lowest possible seniority in the SCP Foundation. A senior researcher should explain to the TAACS their new lack of authority, and that all questions and requests related to their job will be ignored. An organization chart and contemptuous demeanor should be used to aid in this communication.

Any personnel, TAACS or otherwise, attempting to delegate tasks or responsibilities related to SCP-XXXX will be immediately relieved of SCP-XXXX-related responsibilities and submitted to a psychological evaluation.

Personnel directing the relief and subsequent replacement of the TAACS must never be assigned direct or indirect responsibilities related to SCP-XXXX.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a contagious memetic cognitohazard. All known instances of SCP-XXXX exist on paper, hard drives, and server racks (designated SCP-XXXX-1 through SCP-XXXX-n) and are safe in quarantine.

Text and speech are vectors of infection and propagation for SCP-XXXX. On exposure, human subjects experience a moderate stress response and report conflicting feelings of responsibility, and inadequacy. Without exception, all exposed subjects have attempted to delegate or reassign authority to a person they consider more appropriate.

Infection is prelinguistic. In the initial outbreak, a sanitation worker that only speaks mandarin was found tugging

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