Anyone Fall Asleep While At Work?

[Greenleaf]

Anyone... ... ????? Other than JLEONARD I mean? (At HIS age, what can you expect)



I have ocassionally taken a nap on a school bus when I'm, ahem, "working" on a faulty heater motor... ... ... ... ... ... . But it was always on my LUNCH break.

 

[DieselTweaker]

Nothing wrong with a good creeper nap from time to time :-laf

 

[Signal73]

I sleep and get paid to do so. As a matter of fact, I get a stiepend for bed linens Oo.

 

[TORQUE THIS]

I get a stiepend for bed linens Oo.

That's because no one wants to touch them... :-laf

I used to load trucks from 10pm to 7am. We would get done around 3am and find some moving blankets and hide in the trucks. One morning, a driver came in early and drove away with me in the back. When he opened the door at the first delivery, he was suprised!

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

A little cat nap might be acceptable but I've worked with some people that think they are entitled to 4-6 hours of sleep a night on the 12 hour night shift. I work in power plants and I'd rather see a guy surfing the TDR than sleeping when I need him to respond to a situation. Maybe that's just because that's what I do :-laf I get paid pretty well, the least I could do is be awake

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

I get stripes on my bed linens Oo.

I know I wouldn't want to touch them :-laf How bout a bed pan!

 

[GFritsch]

Not yet, but it's been close a couple times. :-laf



Anyone see the Seinfeld episode where George Castanza made the underside of his work desk a micro bedroom?

 

[nickleinonen]

when i was on nights working outside testing the locomotives before dispatch, there were some nights when you didn't get a break [sometimes not even for lunch] and other times, you had lots of power, and all the trains were built and tested by 0300, and you could get 3-4 hours of "rest". .



middle of winter, cab heaters cranked, windows cracked just slightly curled up comfortably in the engineers seat with the legs up on the heater box. . could get very comfortable there. .



best "rest" i had at work was on a night working outside, but there was a derailment and there was no power in the yard to test. lucky it was my friday, as i got 6 hours of "rest" that night [8 hour shift]





[rest and sleep are interchangeable here:-laf]

 

[AMink]

I have flipped the back seat down on the Megacab a few times during lunch. Can't sleep at work cause there are too many other folks around. Don't want to give local gov a bad name.

 

[SHobbs]

Actually have a napping policy at work. We get a 45 min. power nap as it's called. There are times when I can sneak in an hour or two.





Nick



Some of the SD-40's have a rocking effect to them at idle that makes em great sleeping loco's.

 

[MMeier]

I Don't want to give local gov a bad name.

Doesn't it already. . umm hold on, you're up north, my mistake. :-laf

 

[AMink]

up north

Yep, up north, we haven't gone south... . but it seems like some are trying! :-laf We'll see how the elections pan out today!

 

[The patriot]

I'm in the same field of work as Turbo Tim 1.

Last job used to run my azz ragged. I sometimes still managed some "quality time", but only when things were quiet. Which wasnt too often. This job was rotating shifts, 12 hr shifts, sometimes a few weeks in a row. :{ Even though it's the best $$$ I ever made, I dont miss it one bit.



The job before that was another story. The shop steward so much as gave me Cart Blanche there. Even though, I still never abused it. This job was steady midnights, 8hr days, 5 days a week.



Most of the "better bosses" dont care what you do as long as everything's running good, and all things are squared away. This is the way it should be.



I now have a sleep abnia, so I can nod off at any time. :-laf

 

[nickleinonen]

Some of the SD-40's have a rocking effect to them at idle that makes em great sleeping loco's.

they're not bad... i kinda like the gp9 or gp38's. . the blower engines are quiet in the cab idling, and they do rock you to sleep too

 

[rbattelle]

I have a reputation for sleeping at work, particularly at meetings. I generally make it my personal goal to fall asleep in as many meetings as possible.



I've spent years working on sleeping without moving a muscle so that from behind or in a dark meeting you can't tell I'm out cold. I'm not perfect yet, but I'm getting good.



Ryan

 

[ACoyle]

Fell asleep at my desk once, (solo office), woke up and my pager was buzzing called in and found that I got a big sale. Called it in to my vendor. A month or so later they called back and asked me if I would take another nap as they were slow.



AC

 

[JoshPeters]

Never at work. I wanted to... but it's pretty tough with your arms above your head wrenching on something... With hoists... it's pretty tough to take a creeper nap... Especially without a creeper!



Tech school... now that was a different story... .

I had a friend in Tech that worked as a Manager full time (55+hours a week) on top of his 35 hours a week for school. So. . needless to say he perfected the... Wear the hat LOW, cross one leg over, place book on leg, hold pen in one hand and appear to be looking down. He would sleep 80% of class. Ironically, when the teacher would call on him... he'd look up, say sorry my hearing is terrible can you repeat the question... and get it right every time! Even when the Big Rig transmissions teacher SLAMMED an input shaft onto the Metal bench infront of him... he never jumped! All the people awake around him did!

 

[Extreme1]

I have a reputation for sleeping at work, particularly at meetings. I generally make it my personal goal to fall asleep in as many meetings as possible.



I've spent years working on sleeping without moving a muscle so that from behind or in a dark meeting you can't tell I'm out cold. I'm not perfect yet, but I'm getting good.



Ryan

I worked with a guy that used a whiteboard marker to hold his head up. (fat guy, marker under the chin and on the chest) He'd be sitting in a cubicle and appeared to be looking at the computer screen. He even perfected twitching his hand while he dozed to keep the screen saver from kicking in!



Funniest part: We were all contractors and they picked him to be hired direct!!

 

[phloop]

Any time I have to go too some sort of school for work. But as the classes are only refreshing what we already know, about 50% of the class nods off at one time or another. And then if you get some speaker that has no personality, that precentage goes way up. :-laf

 

[JLEONARD]

Anyone... ... ????? Other than JLEONARD I mean? (At HIS age, what can you expect

:-laf :-laf :-laf

Only when I'm in a plane bound for Ohio!!!



It only took me 2 weeks to find this thread!! LOL Oh Scott you're such a kidder.



Jay