Have you ever fallen asleep at work?

[djcruz4fun]

I have scared myself a time or two when I almost fell asleep in a meeting That would be BAD.

Well let me tell ya, we have a maintenance meeting every morning at 9:00 am, on I went to work not feeling very well but I made it the whole day, on Tuesday I went to work feeling Very Bad, at about 8:00 am I called my Manager told him I was not feeling well and I was going home sick, (1st time in 10 years) Wednesday feeling a little better but on cold meds off I go to work. The meeting starts, we are going over the maintenance activities I do my part they can tell I'm still under the weather the planner starts his part the next thing I know I hear a snort, open my eyes my manager looks at me and says you still don't look good go home. (2nd time in 10 years)

 

[PrincessKitty1]

Never, but I regularly fall asleep at the movies and in waiting rooms at doctor's offices, even on exam tables. But my jobs have always been way too busy for sleeping.

I used to have a friend who would lock herself into the single bathroom at work, curl up on the floor, and fall asleep. She was a single mom with 3 kids working nightshift.

 

[Boo'sMom]

You fell asleep in the crapper...?

 

[delilah]

Well, sort of. It was December of my second year of residency. I was doing a pediatrics ER rotation as well as seeing out patients at the clinic and taking night/weekend call at my "home" hospital. One snowy Friday (if I thought about it long enough, I could probably even come up with the date), it took me about two hours to get to my clinic, the traffic and roads were so bad, and the nurses at the clinic were paging me because I wasn't there yet. Beginning in the afternoon, I was working a long ER shift that ended about 2am, as I recall. It snowed all day, and my care was covered with snow, and it took me about two hours to drive home from the Children's hospital. (The normal drive time was about 20 minutes). I was due at my "home" hospital to take Saturday call at 8 am. I actually woke up about 9 am, and I was in a panic. Fortunately, I hadn't been paged (a good thing), and I think that only the operator knew that I wasn't already in the hospital. We had residents doing "floor call" who were not on the medicine rotation, but would take calls from any patient that needed assistance, and that was my assignment that Saturday. I didn't have assigned patients to see on rounds, so, all I had to do was answer calls. Fortunately, the roads were better than when I came home, and I got to the hospital by about 10. When I got to the hospital, I went to my call room and went back to sleep. Lucky me. I never got reprimanded in any way for that situation. In retrospect, I probably should have just driven to my home hospital from Children's, since that was only a 10 minute drive, normally, but, I think I really wanted to see my husband, if only for a few minutes.

 

[tmt martins]

Yep fell asleep behind one of the copiers I work on it was a long 48 hr callout weekend and I was done .I have also had to pull over on the side of the road or rest stop and have DW DC me on my nextel in a hr or so to wake me up.I don't need much sleep a few hrs a night but when I need it I really need it.

 

[ilovedale3]

Yep, I fell asleep during my student teaching!

The kids were working on a social studies project in groups. The info was on the overhead projector and we had the lights off in the room. My supervising teacher was out of the room and I was sitting at a back table. I woke up when one of the kids politely touched my arm and asked if it was time for lunch!

 

[Blueeyes101817]

almost--i work at a day care center,,,every day the kids have nap from 1-3..lights are up,,the music is going...all kids sleeping--SOOO hard to stay awake

 

[kristen821]

i work different shifts everyday. I 10pm-6:30am monday and tuesday off wed. and thurs 2pm-10:30pm friday and 6:30am-3:00pm on sat. and sunday. I have fallen asleep in the corner a few times, but so does everyone else working this shift at my job. It is to hard not too.

 

[MomofKatie]

When I was newly pregnant, I would fall asleep every day after lunch. I worked at a bank, in a very busy department. I would sit and stare at my computer screen, trying to proofread figures, and I would drift off. Luckily, our department was all female, and most of the ladies were moms, so they all understood and took up the slack for me. Once I was out of my first trimester, I didn't fall asleep anymore.