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dumber than a box of hair
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From: Stoneham MA
The best falling-asleep-at-work story I ever heard was from an old friend of mine, Frank Kingston Smith, a DJ at WABC in New York back in the 1970s when this happened. Being a DJ at a radio station is not the situation in which you should be falling asleep on the job:
"On this particular Saturday night/Sunday morning I had worked a split shift. [Dan] Ingram's show 2 to 6 PM, then my own 10 P to 3 A. Come 1:30 AM I was dead tired. To compound things, the engineer was on "ting-a-ling" time (he had worked a shift, GONE HOME, and was called BACK in to work another shift - BIG bucks) and the news reader was Bob Lloyd, known as the sleepwalker. Bob was eternally tired. He'd sit in the newsroom and nap for 20 minutes between 5-minute newscasts every 30 minutes overnight. At the 1:25 AM newscast, Bob drifted in and eased into the chair in the booth off to my right. I should note that I always knocked the lights down to two 'tensor' lamps late at night. Anyhow, I dozed off during Bob's lead story, and at 1:29, before the weather, Bob signaled for the 30-second PSA [public service announcement]. The engineer, who was working with his head down in his folded arms, punched the button... and dozed off. Bob, put his head back... and dozed off. At 2:10 the maintenance engineer strolled in to say the transmitter guys wondered why there was no signal. Duh. We were off the air for 40 minutes."
"On this particular Saturday night/Sunday morning I had worked a split shift. [Dan] Ingram's show 2 to 6 PM, then my own 10 P to 3 A. Come 1:30 AM I was dead tired. To compound things, the engineer was on "ting-a-ling" time (he had worked a shift, GONE HOME, and was called BACK in to work another shift - BIG bucks) and the news reader was Bob Lloyd, known as the sleepwalker. Bob was eternally tired. He'd sit in the newsroom and nap for 20 minutes between 5-minute newscasts every 30 minutes overnight. At the 1:25 AM newscast, Bob drifted in and eased into the chair in the booth off to my right. I should note that I always knocked the lights down to two 'tensor' lamps late at night. Anyhow, I dozed off during Bob's lead story, and at 1:29, before the weather, Bob signaled for the 30-second PSA [public service announcement]. The engineer, who was working with his head down in his folded arms, punched the button... and dozed off. Bob, put his head back... and dozed off. At 2:10 the maintenance engineer strolled in to say the transmitter guys wondered why there was no signal. Duh. We were off the air for 40 minutes."
