(A) I'm glad I was born into the kind of life where I was able to go to college and (B) I am going to have to stop shopping at Amazon...and everywhere else.

Jeff Lockhart took a warehouse temp job because it was the best opportunity he could find....

...Sometime around 2 a.m. that January morning, Jeff took his 30-minute “lunch break.” Most days, he would clock out and go out to his Suburban in the parking lot. He would pull his lunch from his cooler and grab his phone, which, under warehouse policy, wasn't allowed on the floor. He always at least texted Di-Key, who found it hard to sleep while her husband was away at work. On this particular morning, he called her. He asked how her braids had come along, told her that he loved her and that she should get some sleep. Then he said he needed to get back to work.

Less than an hour later, a worker found Jeff on the third floor. He had collapsed and was lying unconscious in aisle A-215, beneath shelves stocked with Tupperware and heating pads.

This story about a temp worker who died in his job, and how people end up in those jobs, is sad and also required reading...