Ravio Paraschivescu Story

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Eduard Paraschivescu is a student at Concordia University in Montreal. It was his second day working as an intern at GSoft, which is a software engineering firm. His co-workers noticed that he was sleeping, and they wanted to have some fun. Eduard slept for 25 minutes. During those 25 minutes, Eduard's co-workers were laughing and putting boxes next to him.

Someone even checked to see if Eduard had a pulse. Eduard's co-workers also gathered around him and took a photo. Eduard was embarrassed when he woke up and realized what had happened. He put his hands over his face.

Eduard stated he is never going to forget that moment. He also stated that there were a million other things he could have gotten notoriety for at the company, but he is always

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