Falling asleep on the job
Lan Hellie was working at a meat packing plant.
His job was to pick bones from mounds of meat passing before him on a conveyor belt.
He nodded off.
Lan woke up when a woman started banging on his hard hat with her meat hook while yelling, “Wake up! Wake up!” in his earplug filled ear.
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