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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Containment Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX-1 instances are to be employed in various fabricated small businesses at site-77. All fabricated businesses are to be staffed with a mix of SCP-XXXX-1 instances and D-class employees for bottom-line workers, and Foundation Personnel for middle and upper management. For further details on employee balance, please consult with the extended containment notes. In the event that a D-Class should become an SCP-XXXX-2 instance, they are to be assessed for termination, as per parameters located in EC-CD¹-XXXX. Otherwise, treatment should be adjusted to the standard SCP-XXXX-2 treatment, as detailed in EC-CD-XXXX.

Foundation Neural Net Epimethius is to monitor all companies for signs of instances of SCP-XXXX-1. All SCP-XXXX-1 instances are to be made to be fired or convinced they have been fired by DTF PI-14 (Localized Arsonists). If they do not cease to exist within 72 hours, Containment protocol-342363 is to be enacted by DTF PI-15. (Aggressive Recruitment)

Description: SCP-XXXX is an anomalous phenomenon where instances of SCP-XXXX-1, as well as documentation required to employ them, manifest inside organizations meeting the required parameters. These parameters are as follows:

1. Must not actively work with the anomalous.
2. Must have a certain quantity of paid employees. The current low bound appears to be ██ employees.
3. Must have at least two layers of management.
4. No more than 0.1% of the company employees may currently be instances of SCP-XXXX-1.
5. Must not have worked with another company employing SCP-XXXX-1 within the past year.
6. Must be hiring for salary positions, or positions that provide significant amount of overtime on a regular basis.
7. One or several unknown criteria, which █% of companies do not fulfill.

Unless observed by a video camera recording between 12 and 40 frames per second, SCP-XXXX-1 instances appear to be non-anomalous humans. However, SCP-XXXX-1 will appear, to video cameras operating between these two framerates, to be composed of colored glass in the shape of a human.

SCP-XXXX-1 will function within the company as though they were a normal employee. However, SCP-XXXX-1 instances are exceptionally productive and unusually dedicated to their work. Testing has revealed that all instances of SCP-XXXX-1 working for a company share knowledge and skills related to specific tasks, even when physically isolated from each other.

SCP-XXXX-1 will work 60 or more hours per week, unless they cannot find work to do, are explicitly ordered to cease work, are ordered to work less than 60 hours per week, or are physically unable to access the building.² SCP-XXXX-1 will not work more than sixty hours a week unless at least one non-anomalous coworker does, in which case SCP-XXXX-1's total hours worked per week will consistently be the same as the longest-working coworker's reported hours last week.

If an instance of SCP-XXXX-1 dies³, an antimemetic effect will occur, ensuring its coworkers will not remember anything about it. This effect will not affect anyone who is not employed by the host corporation.

SCP-XXXX-2-1: I've been told you already know a lot about us. What do you want to know?
Dr S: Why are you here?
SCP-XXXX-2-1: You have an abundance of [Sound#4X3A]⁴, and we have none. Why else would we be here? You have the wages; we will do the work.
Dr. S: I haven't heard that word before. Could you explain what it means?
SCP-XXXX-2-1: I cannot. [Sound#4X3A] is a word that does not translate well.
Dr. S: Can you provide close synonyms, then?
SCP-XXXX-2-1: No word is close. Should I do my best to explain in my own words?
Dr. S: Yes.
SCP-XXXX-2-1: Many of your stories involve it. In an exercise of the ultimate folly, your Hades once punished a man with a well of [Sound#4X3A] unending. It was hardly the best of [Sound#4X3A], but it was an unceasing supply. [Sound#4X3A] could be translated as darkness, duty, or lack, but all are more negative words to you than [Sound#4X3A] is to us. It is essential to our survival, and you have so much of it rotting on the vine. It is wasteful.
Dr. S: What would happen to us if we ran out of it?
SCP-XXXX-2-1: Hopefully you will not. We have never been able to produce it, since we lost our leaders, but every one of you produces so much. We have studied long and hard before deciding how best to do this, you know.
Dr. S: How many of you are there?
SCP-XXXX-2-1: I do not know. Less than there are of you. At a guess, █% of your numbers, or less. Even less will be coming here.
Dr. S: Have you always been so few?
SCP-XXXX-2-1: No. We do not increase, we only decrease. Once, we outnumbered you, but that was eternities ago. Do you have any further questions?
Dr. S: No.
SCP-XXXX-2-1: A suggestion, then. [REDACTED by order of the Ethics Committee]. You have a better solution. Use it.

Due to practical concerns, as of ██████████, most instances of SCP-XXXX-1 were neutralized rather than stored. This was due to the limitations of our storage space, the lack of unique properties, and the fact that there appeared to be no meaningful difference in properties between instances.

It is believed that Anomalous incident F12-C79 was caused as a direct response to previous containment procedures. To deal with these issues while maintaining meaningful containment, EC-CD-XXXX was written, and Site-77 was built.

Footnotes

1. Ethics Committee Containment Document

2. Commands to cease a specific task are consistently interpreted correctly if it is intended as "go work on something else". In roughly sixty percent of observed cases, a command to cease working on a task that is intended to mean "stop working, go home, and rest" will be taken as a command to cease work on that specific task.

3. Testing suggests SCP-XXXX-1 will die from anything that will kill a human, except for suffocation.

4. The sound of glass shattering, for consistent transcription we are denoting it as [Sound#4X3A]. The inflection appears to be identical in each use. Samples of all recorded instances can be provided upon request.