asleep on the job
Example Sentences
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It’s stressful enough without a CPA asleep on the job.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026
Sweeney was accused of being "completely asleep on the job" at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing last year, and told he should consider resigning after Wasps and Worcester went under.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023
Other guards were asleep on the job or missing from their posts.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2020
The difference between a closely supervised human and a robot is agency and predictability—human nannies can quit, throw an unauthorized tea party, or fall asleep on the job.
From Slate • Dec. 24, 2019
The District was his all right, but was that a reason for falling asleep on the job?
From The Torrent Entre Naranjos by Goldberg, Isaac
