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asleep on the job







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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




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