Sleeping at work

Whilst at sea last year, I found an awesome place to hide and have a nap, it was in a void space beneath the air compressors in the engine room. The only downside was that when the compressors did run, it was enough to rattle the eye balls out of your head. However, while at sea with the main engine running full ahead, they hardly ever ran except to top up the service air reservoir
 
Freefaller said:
I've actually nodded off on the loo before at work :o However that was after a 70+ hr week and was actually destroyed. Had a stag do to go to that weekend as well! Needless to say muchos coffee was consumed!
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I've done stuff like this also, when I was younger and more stupid.

8am until 10.30pm for 27 out of 31 days in a month, anything over 8 hours a day was automatically overtime @ time and a half.

Came out loaded, but boy was I donald ducked.
 
Does this guy win for sleeping in the most obvious place possible? :D

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I used to sleep in an old job.

Was a little room where silk screens were put into a light process and it took like 10-20 mins for screens to dry under a warm heater. Used to curl up next to it as the screens were drying and nap. :D
 
I fell asleep at work a few times when I was working two jobs to get out of debt and working wildly varying shifts (e.g. start at 07:30 one day, 14:30 the next day). No chance of any kind of regular sleep even in the time I had left over after two jobs. I've no idea how I managed, but if I got the chance to have a break and sit down I'd shut down. Sometimes into a daze, sometimes all the way to sleep. Fortunately I was always woken up before the break was over, either by a coworker or by falling off a chair :) On one painful occasion, by headbutting a desk. I'd propped my head on a hand in a failed attempt to stay awake. I fell asleep, muscles relaxed, mavity did its thing.
 
Not yet, but when summer comes and I'm on one my many trips out of the office I may find myself napping in a park under the sun somewhere.
 
Sometimes if I can't sleep the night before/Day before a shift i've been known to nod off in the car park or in the Rest Room :)

Unfortunatley I don't get the luxury of falling asleep at my desk otherwise Ambulances don't get dispatched to dead/dying/otherwise injured people :p
 
lol, sleeping in the server room

When I was 18 and worked at a Warehouse moving rails of clothes around for Newlook, we used to purposely look for rails of clothes that needed to be put the furthest away in the warehouse where boxes would be. I once made a bed out of boxes, layed coats and stuff over the boxes and put rails around it. I got a bit of a lie down, maybe 10 minutes.

About an hour later I went back and someone else had found it and was alseep. :D

I also found a few that other people had clearly made. Along with one where there was a box of christmas chocolates for an office somewhere that someone had tucked into before their nap.
 
when I was a PhD student I used to sleep on the top of the stairs. They lead to a generator room, which was normally locked, hence no one would ever come up to the top level.
 
LOAM said:
LOL when I worked for a Building Surveyors in Darlington about 15 years or so ago, I used to work in what was a (poorly) converted attic space. The stairs were really creaky and me being a light sleeper could get my head down without the fear of being caught.

I remember one day in the winter when I had a thick woolly jumper on and I was just sprawled over the desk with forehead resting on my arm I was jolted awake by the noise of someone coming up the stairs. I sat bolt upright and started the usual Autocad operators ruse of zooming in and out and looking puzzled. My boss sat down opposite me and I broke off from the zooming and faced him, he started to talk the usual nonsense and my mind started its usual wondering, he stopped talking and said “what’s all those marks on your forehead ?”. I ummed and arr’d a bit as I wondered if he realised they were an imprint of the weave of my jumper…..
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Genuine lol from me there, was never able to sleep in our drawing office, open plan, with admin people and all sorts going on, the best I could hope for was to slouch down behind my monitors and alt+tab if anyone came toward me.
 
Some businesses on the continent actually encourage workers to take 30 min naps after lunch because it encourages productivity later on in the day.
 
I have been known to sleep for a good 10 hours on a 12 hours nightshift.

I had man-flu one time, and decided to go into work. I did my reports first thing, and then got my head down. I made sure that the volume was set to high just in case an alerts came in. ;)
 
mattyprice4004 said:
I've done stuff like this also, when I was younger and more stupid.

8am until 10.30pm for 27 out of 31 days in a month, anything over 8 hours a day was automatically overtime @ time and a half.

Came out loaded, but boy was I donald ducked.
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I didn't get paid overtime :( Sometimes, work just needed doing. Fortunately, I haven't done that in a few years! :)
 
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