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[TheOMan]

at work?

I've never fallen asleep at work, but I'll tell you, there's been times where I've caught myself doing the stupid head bob, meetings where I'm so sleepy I can't see straight, and where I've had to pinch myself to keep from nodding off :/

I remember one time when I was working for a telco - the first day I'm getting paraded around from cubicle to cubicle, meeting the people I'm supposed to work with and we come to one person's pod, let's call him Steven.

Orientation guy: *as we are walking to the cubicle* And here is Steven's spot, he's one of the DBA's on the project
Me: *following right behind* Okay
Orientation guy: Steven meet...oh

I look inside the cubicle and Steven is sleeping...not just in his chair, but on the desk, arm stretched out and practically snoring. We left his cubicle pretty quickly and not a word was said about it. Ever. Felt sorry for the poor guy, but he obviously didn't care and made a decision that he was gonna be sleeping in his cubicle that day (and it couldn't have been past 10am). It was hard to work with him after that without picturing him drooling on his desk, heh.

More companies should allow power naps, I'm pretty sure most people would benefit immensely.

So, you ever been caught? Did you get reprimanded/fired/congratulated? Just curious.

 

[Jason]

Yup but it was at the tail end of my lunch break anyway. I've caught my boss napping so it's all good.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

I can't very well sleep in a swivel chair and I'm not about to sprawl out on the office furniture, so I just wait till I get home.

 

[achilles]

I went to this training thing... and all it was was talk talk talk. My head kept bobbing... and I'm pretty sure I spazed a couple of times. The lady asked me if I was okay during our break... fucking embarassing.
Though it clearly wasn't only me that was falling asleep, but I think I was the only one spoken to.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Used to all of the time at my old QA job. Especially during crunch time. I used to record myself playing on a vhs tape during the day, and then when I couldn't keep my eyes open at night I'd play the video back and hold a controller in my hand. The office was setup so my back was to the door and if you walked by outside you could see the tv screen. No one ever noticed.

 

[ToxicAdam]

I had a factory job where if your work was done, you could do whatever you wanted (go home, stay until the end of the day and bullshit, or sleep). So alot of people would take snoozers at thier stations. It was wierd to drive my forklift through the plant and see half the people asleep on these makeshift beds.

This went on for years, until some dumbass salesperson decided to let a prosepective client walkthrough our facility. Oops. No more nap time for the workers.

 

[Tritroid]

Not at work no. But in class yes. Especially if the temperature in the lecture hall is 70+ degrees.

Funny story: There was a dude in one of my 500 seat lecture hall classes, and for some stupid reason he sat in the front row while tired. Well his head started bobbing backwards over and over until finally it cracked into the hard back of his seat, which sent an enormous echo throughout an otherwise hushed lecture hall. Everyone laughed at his stupid ass.

 

[bjork]

when I worked at WM, I would go inside the bulk rack in the toy dept (where they kept power wheels, sandboxes, etc), get behind all the boxes, and sleep.

never got caught.

 

[Spellbound]

I wish, no matter how hard I try I can't fall asleep unless Im laying down in a bed. Even when Im dead on my feet tired I still can't get a wink, and I've tried everything. Laying on the floor, on two chairs, in my car, nothin .

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

I've never been caught, but one time at school, I was trying really hard to not fall asleep while taking notes. Since I was so tired, I put my head down on the desk, but I was still taking notes.Then I heard my teacher shout out "Alright class, that's the end of the notes, here's your homework". I looked down at my paper and saw nothing but scribbles. I realized that when I put my head down, I had fallen asleep right away and I was dreaming about my teacher giving us notes for the past hour. :lol

 

[TheOMan]

Used to all of the time at my old QA job. Especially during crunch time. I used to record myself playing on a vhs tape during the day, and then when I couldn't keep my eyes open at night I'd play the video back and hold a controller in my hand. The office was setup so my back was to the door and if you walked by outside you could see the tv screen. No one ever noticed.

:lol This is pretty freaking sneaky.

I've never been caught, but one time at school, I was trying really hard to not fall asleep while taking notes. Since I was so tired, I put my head down on the desk, but I was still taking notes.Then I heard my teacher shout out "Alright class, that's the end of the notes, here's your homework". I looked down at my paper and saw nothing but scribbles. I realized that when I put my head down, I had fallen asleep right away and I was dreaming about my teacher giving us notes for the past hour.

:lol This reminds me of the numerous times I'd be tired during class but still fight to stay awake when I was in school. By the end of class I'd have nothing but scribbles that were unreadable, or if it was readable it would have utter nonsense that I wouldn't remember writing interleaved with the notes. Either way, I'd have to borrow somebody's notes to redo mine. Should have just skipped and slept looking back on it now :/

 

[pollo]

ive fallen asleep at work before...but that was after staying up till 4 and waking up at 7 to go to class the whole week.

It was during when I had to update antivirus for this guy and I could barely keep awake so I fell asleep for a second; the guy was working on something then he asks me a question and I was suddenly jolted up out of my nap and it was obvious to him that Ive been asleep. I was embarassed as all hell and now whenever I feel sleepy i just take a power nap on the toilet or get some diet coke to keep me going.

 

[Drinky Crow]

Yup. I crash hard at 3PM most days, so I'll just prop my feet up on my guest chair in my office and close my eyes for 15 to 30 minutes. I work more than 8 hours most days, anyhow, so it's all good. Gets me refreshed for better quality coding/writing, anyhow.

 

[ChrisReid]

Funny story: There was a dude in one of my 500 seat lecture hall classes, and for some stupid reason he sat in the front row while tired. Well his head started bobbing backwards over and over until finally it cracked into the hard back of his seat, which sent an enormous echo throughout an otherwise hushed lecture hall. Everyone laughed at his stupid ass.

I used to sleep for a good 50 minutes or so every day in the back of a 500 person lecture. I'd bring a big scarf to fold up into a pillow and everything. Once woke up after the class had ended. I managed to sleep through 450 people getting up and walking out of the room. There were just a few people milling about in the front part.

 

[Bluecondor]

I have my own office, no window on my door or into the rest of the building, and my big window to the outside has a blind on it.

I sleep here all the time, and I even have a really soft stuffed turtle sitting on a shelf in my office that makes for a great pillow.

I was just sleeping here the other day, when two of my students knocked on my door. I had to jump up, throw the turtle back on the shelf, get my shoes and glasses on, and then act all cool when I opened the door.

Meanwhile - they know I sleep in here. In fact - rumor has it that they spy through my window somehow and watch me (which is hard to believe, because my office is about 25 feet above ground).

 

[Bluecondor]

I used to sleep for a good 50 minutes or so every day in the back of a 500 person lecture. I'd bring a big scarf to fold up into a pillow and everything. Once woke up after the class had ended. I managed to sleep through 450 people getting up and walking out of the room. There were just a few people milling about in the front part.

While that is funny, I once had a dude sleep through one of my final exams. He started the test, and then like five minutes into it - I noticed that his head was down....really down. He was always kind of an unusual kid, so I didn't say anything.

Sure enough - he woke up with like 5 minutes remaining in the test. He was good guy, so I let him take a make-up. But - it was quite funny (to me anyway) at the time.

People sleep through my finals (in their dorm rooms) all the time. I have had people sleep through 4:00 PM finals - which is just mind-boggling to me.

You can always tell when they are legit too, because they will come running into the classroom, all frantic, with a look of horror on their faces - ready to burst into tears. I just nod and smile sympathetically, and then we work something out....

 

[Arwen]

At my latest job in a lab, I nodded off dispensing media into test tubes and woke up when the tube I had been filling for the past couple of minutes overflowed onto my shoes. Luckily my supervisor wasn't in the room.

Fallen asleep at school too many times to remember. The worst was in my grade 11 high school history class when I fell asleep on top of my binder at an angle, and it slowly slid off of my desk and crashed onto the floor, sending my notes everywhere. After class, my teacher was like, "Are my notes boring you that much, Arwen?" and I couldn't really say anything except sorry, but his classes really were very, very boring.

 

[Nester]

During College I worked as a Custodian for a church a few blocks from my dorm. The head custodian guy was a pretty old guy that moved pretty slow, so things that took him awhile to do, I breezed through. 30 minutes into my 5 hours shift I'd usually be done, so I'd go sleep on the couch in the youth group room until it was time to clock out. Got close to getting caught once, but that's about it.

 

[slayn]

never at work, class all the time. One of my most famous moments was in stats class:

I was too out of it to remember this, but I'm told this is what happened:
it was a small class, only like 15-20 people. I was basically sprawled out on the desk, head in my arms. If I snored, I would have been snoring. Teacher asked some stats question that no one in the class knew the answer to, so she called on me knowing full well that I wasn't paying attention (and probably suspected I was asleep)

upon hearing my name called I (apparently) looked up, blinking, with a "where the fuck am I?" look on my face. I looked at the board, squinted, mumbled the correct answer to the stats question just loud enough for everyone to hear, and promptly put my head back down and fell back asleep.

I wish I could pull shit off like that at my job, I would go to sleep all the time

 

[Escape Goat]

never at work, class all the time. One of my most famous moments was in stats class:

I was too out of it to remember this, but I'm told this is what happened:
it was a small class, only like 15-20 people. I was basically sprawled out on the desk, head in my arms. If I snored, I would have been snoring. Teacher asked some stats question that no one in the class knew the answer to, so she called on me knowing full well that I wasn't paying attention (and probably suspected I was asleep)

upon hearing my name called I (apparently) looked up, blinking, with a "where the fuck am I?" look on my face. I looked at the board, squinted, mumbled the correct answer to the stats question just loud enough for everyone to hear, and promptly put my head back down and fell back asleep.

I wish I could pull shit off like that at my job, I would go to sleep all the time

Be glad you weren't in my class. I'd have thrown your ass out :lol

 

[rastex]

I sleep all the time in class (when I go), and have slept numerous times at all of my jobs. It's not a big deal as long as you get all of your work done.

 

[TheOMan]

At my latest job in a lab, I nodded off dispensing media into test tubes and woke up when the tube I had been filling for the past couple of minutes overflowed onto my shoes. Luckily my supervisor wasn't in the room.

Fallen asleep at school too many times to remember. The worst was in my grade 11 high school history class when I fell asleep on top of my binder at an angle, and it slowly slid off of my desk and crashed onto the floor, sending my notes everywhere. After class, my teacher was like, "Are my notes boring you that much, Arwen?" and I couldn't really say anything except sorry, but his classes really were very, very boring.

So, sleeping in class, eh? I'm gonna make sure to beat you the next time I see you. >:|

 

[VALIS]

When I worked in telecom I'd sometimes catch naps if i had to do work in one of the phone closets. The worst was when you'd hear someone coming in and wake up a split second beforehand, then try to explain what you were doing while you're still 3/4ths asleep. "Yeah... I was just... uh. Doing that... thing. With the thing. You know."

 

[Arwen]

So, sleeping in class, eh? I'm gonna make sure to beat you the next time I see you. >:|

...Bring it...

I know your weakness now, or did you forget?

 

[B-B-Bomba!]

I get very drowsy post lunch, especially if I have no real work to do. I got caught by colleagues a few days ago, not full-on sleeping, but resting my eyelids and starting to float away ...

The previous week I fucked myself over good and proper, coming into work still quite drunk on an hour or so of sleep. Get this: I actually fell asleep on the phone to a customer. It's an IT Helpdesk, and this boring guy had this boring problem in the afternoon; there was a pause in the conversation as I'd asked him to perform some action and see the result, and in the lull I just dropped off. I was woken by residual anxiety caused by this gross lack of professionalism, jerking to life and hurriedly mumbling an approximation of the next question in my line of investigation. There was an embarrassed moment as we both processed the fact that I had just blurted out some total rubbish, and then I got my shit together and we moved on. Crazy though, and a bit scary ...

Anyway I find meetings and training sessions to be the absolute worst, and resent the tendency to do these things late in the day. Siestas and power naps ought to be more acceptable. I'd happily work harder and later in exchange for a midday kip.

 

[TheOMan]

...Bring it...

I know your weakness now, or did you forget?

What the? I have no idea what you're talking about. Delirious from the heat?

Heh, actually, I remember one time we were having a large project meeting. Lights were dimmed and the overhead projector was on. One guy fell asleep holding a coffee right by the project executive. Unfortunately for him, the PowerPoint presentation had a sound clip and I guess it startled him and he jolted awake. His coffee ended up in the p.e.'s lap. I'm pretty sure he wanted to fire him on the spot :lol I've never had to stifle laughter that badly before.

The previous week I fucked myself over good and proper, coming into work still quite drunk on an hour or so of sleep. Get this: I actually fell asleep on the phone to a customer. It's an IT Helpdesk, and this boring guy had this boring problem in the afternoon; there was a pause in the conversation as I'd asked him to perform some action and see the result, and in the lull I just dropped off. I was woken by residual anxiety caused by this gross lack of professionalism, jerking to life and hurriedly mumbling an approximation of the next question in my line of investigation. There was an embarrassed moment as we both processed the fact that I had just blurted out some total rubbish, and then I got my shit together and we moved on. Crazy though, and a bit scary ...

:lol :lol :lol

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

A few months back my brother and I were working the same hours at the same company (though in different buildings), so we drove together. Then my hours got shifted about a bit. I knew it was seasonal work ending soon, though, so rather than bother to drive separately I arrived at 4:30 like I had been, went to the half-room where I was working, moved a box to block the view of anyone who'd walk by, and had my DS wake me up about an hour later. Not exactly sleeping on the clock, but hey.

 

[Bebpo]

While that is funny, I once had a dude sleep through one of my final exams. He started the test, and then like five minutes into it - I noticed that his head was down....really down. He was always kind of an unusual kid, so I didn't say anything.

Sure enough - he woke up with like 5 minutes remaining in the test. He was good guy, so I let him take a make-up. But - it was quite funny (to me anyway) at the time.

People sleep through my finals (in their dorm rooms) all the time. I have had people sleep through 4:00 PM finals - which is just mind-boggling to me.

You can always tell when they are legit too, because they will come running into the classroom, all frantic, with a look of horror on their faces - ready to burst into tears. I just nod and smile sympathetically, and then we work something out....

I just wanted to tell you that you are a great person and that I'm sure your students appriciate your fairness