One of my early jobs was at a company that made the big metal light poles you see by highways. A new welder was hired on just out of high school. He was a good guy, but not the sharpest you ever saw. One night we were sweeping up the shop, and he broke the wooden handle on his broom. One of the old-timers convinced him that he would be fired if he didn't fix that broom. He asked how he was supposed to fix it, and the old guy said, "Weld it back together. You're a welder, ain't you?" The kid, of course, questioned how one would weld wood. "With a wood rod, dummy!" So the kid went all over the shop trying to find a wood rod. He finally asked the crusty old asshole in the tool crib for a wood rod and got a 10 minute lecture on electricity, conductors, insulators, and how they pertain to welding.
A few weeks later, the kid laid down inside one of the poles and fell asleep during first break. After break, when he didn't show up at his station, we were afraid something had happened to him and searched the entire shop for him. One of the other welders found him and, when he was hard to wake, welded scrap strips over both ends of the pole such that the kid couldn't get out. The kid just slept through it all. When supper break came about two hours later, he was still asleep in the pole, so a couple of the welders grabbed some scrap strips and started beating on the sides of the pole. That pole rang like a bell and, of course, woke the kid up. He had a headache and was deaf as a post the rest of the shift. But he didn't take a nap in a pole again.