A baggage handler for Alaska Airlines fell asleep in the cargo area of the plane Monday and began yelling and pounding on the walls when he awoke. Passengers and crew of Alaska Airlines Flight 448 bound for Los Angeles heard screams and banging noises coming from the cargo hold after takeoff. The passengers were told that the plane would return to the airport, and that they would be informed of the reason later. The employee spent 14 minutes in the pressurized, climate controlled cargo hold and was taken to a local hospital when the plane landed.
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That other student worker was not fond of working. Once the librarians left for the day, he would bed down for a long nap on a couch. I had to do all of the work myself.
One evening, I decided not to wake him up before closing the library. He woke up on his own in the middle of the night. Figuring that the alarm had been set and he could not leave the building without setting it off, he had to call the campus police to get out.
The next week, the circulation manager quietly promulgated a new rule: wake up your co-workers before you leave.