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3. Asleep on the Job
3. Asleep on the Job
Bethany dreamed of being a TV reporter while in college in small town Illinois. There wasn't a TV station in driving distance, so she took a job at an NPR station in town. They put her on air right away.

"It was literally in the middle of the night with one break an hour," she said. So to keep her occupied she had her boyfriend come to work with her. They were the only two people in the building, so she figured she'd never be caught. But then the couple fell asleep.

Bethany missed all her one-minute breaks from 3a.m. on. Another radio employee discovered them cuddling on the floor of the newsroom. Assuming this happened all the time, Bethany showed up to the weekly staff meeting on Monday. "I guess it really was a big deal," she said. "They made an example of me and I ran out."

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Apr 8th 2009 10:05AM

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