Have you fallen asleep at work?

[rzemanfl]

28 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Time expired
	Never.
	11 (39%)
	Yes, my job includes sleep periods, e.g., firefighter.
	1 (4%)
	Dozed off for a few minutes once.
	4 (14%)
	Once, for an hour or more.
	0 (0%)
	Dozed off for a few minutes more than once.
	12 (43%)
	More than once, sometimes for an hour or more.
	0 (0%)
	Only after sneaking in some on the job sex.
	0 (0%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. You need an option for "Routinely."

(But surreptitiously. )

[rzemanfl]

3. I need that job.

[True Dough]

2. Only when I'm

guarding high-profile prisoners. Always tends to put me in a peaceful slumber.

[rzemanfl]

6. Do you dream nice dreams about how you will spend

the money that's in your new offshore account?

[True Dough]

9. I'd give a fulsome response

but the internet connection isn't great right now on the Grand Cayman.

[ProudLib72]

30. It's spelled "Folsom" FYI

[True Dough]

31. You got me with that one, Johnny!

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Staring at a monitor, it's easy to doze off. I just hope I don't drool on myself when it happens.

[rzemanfl]

8. Men have another embarassment to worry about

when they fall asleep.

[GulfCoast66]

24. Not men my age.

[Javaman]

5. yes, but now I take a short nap during lunch. makes the world of difference. nt

[bluedigger]

7. I woke up to a General standing over me once during an army training exercise.

It was the middle of the afternoon. My section chief explained I'd been up all night working. The general told me to "carry on". I could not.

[mwooldri]

10. As an over the road truck driver....

... the bed is always right behind me. Driving tired is risky, and yes I have. But I know when I am too tired that I need to stop and sleep.

Though that option for "only after on the job sex" can apply... in good ways and bad.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Never, however . . . . .

I have been fired as a substitute teacher more than once on that accusation. I don't have narcolepsy. I sleep 9 hours a night. I drink strong coffee in the morning. The kids are noisy. I could take a pill for sleeping and still be wide awake. I'm on summer break and I promise you that I don't nod off during the day or evening.

The MO is that short of a video and witnesses, you can't prove you WEREN'T sleeping. The schools just use that as an excuse to stop using you as a sub.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Routinely.

37 years on the same job, (transportation) and the naps were absolutely priceless.

[DemoTex]

13. I had been flying the Ho Chi Minh Trail most of the night during operation Lam Son 719.

It was dawn, and we were on the northeast-bound leg of a racetrack pattern over Laos flying an electronic counterwarfare radio intercept mission, and the whole crew was dog-tired. The anti-aircraft gun batteries had calmed down, and the two big R-3350 engines droned incessantly, with the props slightly out of sync. The sun was spilling in over the glareshield. A soporific situation.

Abeam Tchepone, Laos, the aircraft sounds changed. I suddenly woke up to find the nose dangerously above the horizon with the airspeed decaying. I grabbed the control wheel and throttles and initiated a recovery (there was no autopilot). I looked over and saw that my co-pilot was sound asleep, but waking suddenly with the changes in aircraft sounds. I glanced back into the mission bay and all of the intercept operators were sound asleep. Called the aft galley on the interphone: woke them up.

The entire crew, including me, had drifted off to sleep. But my maneuvering to recover from an unusual attitude woke everyone onboard. How long had I been asleep? Three to five minutes max. I had plotted a SAM site about 8-10 minutes earlier, about 25-30 nautical miles back (we were flying the mission at 180 knots - 3 nm/minute).

During Lam Son 719, crew rest and duty/flight time limitations went out the window. Exigencies of war. But after that experience, we were all careful to keep our buddies awake, especially the pilots!

[rzemanfl]

16. Yikes! n/t

[Ilsa]

17. Damn, scary stuff!

So glad you're still with us.

My husband has tales of working round-the-clock in data processing jobs. Said more than once he saw coworkers starting to think irrationally to the point of paranoia in one case.

Failing to get adequate sleep can be deadly.

[GeorgeGist]

14. Power naps.

That's what I told my staff.

[Jokerman]

15. In my younger days...

when I'd stay out late on a week night I'd slip off to a quite corner of the warehouse where there were a bunch of old office chairs, set the alarm on my watch and grab a 55 minute nap during my lunch hour. At this point, sleep was more important than food.

I never did this on "company time" but that didn't stop the head of another department from reporting me and trying to get me fired. The owner made it clear that my lunch hour was mine to do with as I pleased.

[mitch96]

18. When I would get called in late nite, waiting for the patient to arrive.....

I'd be sitting behind the computer screen........... boop, gone.... I usually awake just as the door flung open, patient and crew busted in and it was "SHOW TIME"!!!!!!!!!!! That would wake you up real fast....
I remember a resident told me he was in surgery retracting a part of the abdomen and he fell asleep standing there. He was on the tail end of a 36 hour shift with little to no sleep. He said he woke up being flung across the room by the surgeon.. Apparently he released his grip and the wound closed on the surgeons hands...... scary shit..
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[elocs]

19. I haven't "fallen" asleep but I've deliberately taken a nap.

Now I was in a 7-11 very early the other morning and the woman at the register was standing there with her eyes closed. She had clearly "fallen" asleep.

Often I had found I was sleepy because I was unable to sleep at the moment but then when I was in a place where I could nap I was up in a couple of minutes, wide awake.
Now that I'm retired I can pretty much sleep whenever I want, so I don't.

[rzemanfl]

20. I used "fallen asleep" to include predmeditated sleeping.

Maybe "Have you ever slept at work?" would have been clearer.

I'm retired too, every once in a while I will sleep until ten.

[elocs]

21. The irony is that since I'm retired I can sleep as long as I chose, but seldom do.

But I do enjoy sleeping without needing to get up most of the time. Then again, my bladder alarm tends to prevent me from oversleeping.
But when I worked it was often at places where I was free to catch 40 winks if I needed them just as long as I got my work done.

[rzemanfl]

25. If I used my bladder as an alarm I would be up at 3 a.m. n/t

[elocs]

44. When I was in my 20s I had a work physical and complained about having to 'go' a lot.

My dr. had tests done and came back and told me, "I'm sorry to tell you, but you have TB."
"TB???" "Yes, Tiny Bladder".
And so it has been since only now I take a water pill for my BP and was also diagnosed with BPH.
So I'm up at 3, but also at 1 and 5. Fortunately I fall back asleep easily.
Since I'm up so frequently at 3 a.m. I decided to take my daily 10 mile bike ride then when it's nice and quiet and fewer cars around. When I get home I eat breakfast and then sleep until I wake up or when the cats are screaming at my door to be fed.

[rzemanfl]

45. I have had BPH for 20 years. Getting old is fun, right? n/t

[elocs]

48. No, it's not fun, but it beats the alternative.

My biggest worry is that my mother died of Alzheimer's after 15 years in the nursing home and she first showed signs of dementia when she was the age I am now.
In that case death is a better alternative to getting older.

[rzemanfl]

49. Sorry about your mother. n/t

[frogmarch]

22. Years ago when I worked as a

fossil preparator, I sometimes got "stoned" on the preservatives and dozed off with my face in the sand tray.

[rzemanfl]

33. No one prepared me and now I am fossil myself.

Interesting job.

[Lucid Dreamer]

23. I am sure I have never fallen asleep on the job...

but I know I've woken up a few times on the mid-shift.


-- Computer baby-sitter.

[tinymontgomery]

26. Learned in the Navy

Learned in the navy to grab some sleep any time you could,
especially during lunch, noon'ers. Have carried over to this day,
grabbing a few minutes when ever I can. Job wasn't dangerous so
I could pull it off.

[DinahMoeHum]

27. Short naps on my lunch break.

n/t

[UniteFightBack]

28. It's a whole different beast when it's the overnight shift. nt

[Skittles]

29. nope

and I work 12 hour night shifts

[rzemanfl]

36. I bet you kick ass at that. n/t

[Skittles]

42. well

my secret is, I cannot fall asleep at home very easily either

[rzemanfl]

46. Drumpf doesn't make it easy for any of us. n/t

[ProudLib72]

32. I've really wanted to at times, but I have major difficulty falling asleep

At work I'd be too anxious about being caught.

However, this did remind me of a class I had in graduate school. The class went until 10pm, which wasn't usually a problem. The professor decided to invite a high profile speaker. He was so excited about that, for days ahead, he would remind us all of this unique opportunity. Well, the high profile guest decided to bring in a 40 page article he had written some time before and simply read it out loud to us. It was so boring that the guest put himself to sleep. Seriously, he kept nodding off.

[rzemanfl]

34. I went to grad school while working full-time. After classes

that late I had a 76 mile drive home. I got the degree eventually, suitable for framing. It is in a Tupperware container in my garage waiting to be thrown out when I die.

[ProudLib72]

38. Yeah, but there was a time when grad degrees meant something

I guess a few of them still do, but this is not one of those. A masters in Irish Studies just doesn't mean the same as a JD from Harvard.

[rzemanfl]

39. I got a JD in '71. The masters was a mid-life thing in '92. n/t

[Kaleva]

35. Quite a bit when I was in the Navy

You sit there at the TSTC or WCC or CIWS control panel for hours on end day after boring day and one is bound to fall asleep.

[rzemanfl]

37. I have no idea what any of those acronyms mean. n/t

[Kaleva]

40. Here they are

TSTC - Target Selection and Tracking Console

WCC - Weapons Control Console

CIWS - Close In Weapon System

[rzemanfl]

41. Thank you. n/t

[Mike_DuBois]

43. Ooch, yeah

We got a massage pad and put on couch in our office. Sat on it and passed out. Snoring brought out the branch manager. Said I was clearing my nose. Close call.

[Sunsky]

47. When I worked the night shift years ago

I used to doze off a few times. I would also doze off while heading home in the mornings and fall asleep in my driveway. Didn't stay long at that job. Never again.

[rzemanfl]

51. I worked all through college and learned to function with little sleep

while keeping odd hours. I was young then, still only twenty when I graduated.

[OnDoutside]

50. In my early working life, I used to have my main meal in the Company canteen, at lunch time. It

wasn't the best idea because I used to have to come back to an office with no aircon, sitting in from of a computer screen all afternoon. I'd have to fight nodding off. My boss was alerted by the snoring (!), so something had to change After that, I had a light lunch and kept the windows open as much as possible, so the room wouldn't become stuffy.

The Company before that one, sent myself and a colleague over to England for 3 months, and it was a typical English office life where they would cross the road to the local pub at lunch time, and have a few pints of beer ! Again, not the best idea for an English summer with no aircon..... zzzzzz

[Drunken Irishman]

52. On my lunch I have.

I'm salary so I guess my sleeping is technically on the clock lol but I go into a private area with chairs and TVs to do it.

[underpants]

53. Regularly. If my boss comes by I sit up and say "Amen"

Nothing the boss can say about THAT.

[rzemanfl]

54. Good planning. n/t