 After failing the spelling and typing tests administered by the human resources department of the "Washington Post", Sager managed to land a lesser position as a copy boy on the 7 p.m. — 3 a.m. graveyard shift.Eleven months later, working in his off-hours as a freelancer, Sager broke an investigative story about abuses at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, his first front-page article at the "Post".That evening, he was called into the glass office of then-metro editor Bob Woodward and promoted to staff writer.