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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.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "The Slice." Read all stories from this blog