[Closed] having 40 winks (or something else) at work.

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I used to build the interiors of narrowboats.

I'd been fitting out the back cabin of one and finished cutting the ply for the single bed that the mattress would sit on.

I'd often have a casual little close of the eyes as part of my working day, only this time I must have drifted off properly. I awoke to find my boss in the doorway looking at me.

Luckily he was smiling... 😳

Not at work exactly... but just got back from lunch spent snoozing in a local church.

Quiet, warm and vpeaceful .... lovely

To think, the time I used to waste in the pub

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Used to do that during my summer working in Greece. We'd take the trailer of rubbish to the tip and have a nap on the back of the truck in the sun

I don't think even I could manage 40... oh, winks, right.

I used to work for BAE Systems in Barrow building Nuclear Subs, before they went in the water and the ballast tanks were sealed, I used to regularly find a gaggle of apprentices and fitters asleep in them.

Danger Wink innit? 😀

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I awoke to find my boss in the doorway looking at me.

he was smiling...

Point on the teddy where he touched you................

Used to work in a secure office inside a secure building on a secure site. No natural light, just the gentle hum of air con and electrical kit, and a whacking great punch code lock on the door that sounded like thunder from the inside. Ergo plenty of Friday morning hangovers slept off in there.

My boss let me try some chloroform at work.
It made me very sleepy and gave me a really sore arse.

Genuine LOL @ TINAS

In an old advertising agency artworkers' darkroom years ago. Thought I'd have a quick nap and woke up several hours later.

We had 12 blokes sacked when the whole night shift was found sleeping.. they'd even made beds in store rooms 😯

Used to be next door to an office that had 3 old codgers in it, no point in asking them anything from about 13.30 to 14.30 as they were all having post lunch nap. As one of the girls said "Ah bless" 😆

My boss let me try some chloroform at work.
It made me very sleepy and gave me a really sore arse.

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do firemen not get paid to do this ? 🙂

I used to work for BAE Systems in Barrow building Nuclear Subs, before they went in the water and the ballast tanks were sealed, I used to regularly find a gaggle of apprentices and fitters asleep in them.

I used to [s]work[/s] attend there too... we had 'under bench bunks' in our workshop, with sliding doors which locked from the inside (I may have slept off a few hangovers in them 😉 )

At the time, I didn't know any different and thought this was what everyone did at work! 😀

Someone I knew a few years back had a reputation for falling asleep very easily.

One lunchtime he went out to do some car fettling and he didn't return. It turned out he had fallen asleep whilst bent over in the engine bay. Thinking about it, I think he must have had an underlying medical problem 🙂

most of my work is done in the mornings. van to load to go out delivering, riggers coming in to load up for the day, so after dinner it tends to be a bit quiet.
overhead heater and a comfy reclining chair are a deadly combo...... 😆

I'd been fitting out the back cabin

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Some of these are hilarious - guy I knew years ago worked in a place where they kept lots of animals & they had a store-room full to the rafters with large bags of sawdust, he'd arranged a corner of the room into a sort of fully enclosed nest area for himself & said it was the best sleep anyone could ever have imagined... he was always covered in sawdust though...

Used to work for a big Marquee company years ago, and we had huge bags of silk lining material to dress the marquees inside.

By far the best sleep I've ever had was nestled in amongst those bags in a shipping container going down the M1 🙂

Fell asleep in the stalls once, 45 mins 😳 Had been out till 3am and back up at 6:15

Friend works from home and has a siesta every afternoon

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We had 12 blokes sacked when the whole night shift was found sleeping.. they'd even made beds in store rooms

Is that where you got your username?

When I had an office in Mayfair and another in the City, I've been known to grab some shut-eye on the circle line. No matter where you wake up you're never more than 30mins from one of the offices. You can keep going round and round half the afternoon in undisturbed bliss.

I used to work for a large international bank, and we used to have to be in for 07:00, so I had to be up for 05:30 and on the road for 06:00. Onsite we had a sports centre that also had a lounge area that had leather sofa's etc, so you could unwind during your lunch hour, if you so wished, And one particular day, I so wished. I had to check some patching in that area of the campus, so I thought an early lunch, then a nap.

So settling down on the largest sofa, with the days paper, I drifted off, mid dream I woke myself up with a snore that could suck windows out of their frames and the paper was stuck to my face and sofa with dribble. On removing the paper two things took me by surprise, it was quarter past 3, so I had been sleeping for 3 hours, and I was surrounded by a group of newly arrived developers from India who were on a site tour with their head of department who all looked slightly bemused (apart from the mgr), as I jumped up, mumbled about it being a lovely day then escaped through the door as quick as I could.

Electrician used to sleep on the transformer (nice and warm) on night shifts at colliery I worked at years ago, would threaten to condemn something if foreman didn't let him sleep!

I work from home. I have blinds on my cabin windows. The mobile reception "can be" a bit iffy. I have a comfy chair too.

nealglover - linings was a favourite sleeping spot when I worked for a marquee firm too. Our bags were in crates so you didn't want to get noticed, would find yourself on the forklift in the middle of the warehouse or yard at full reach.

Afternoon naps tend to happen in summer at lunch, sat out in fields. Best to be prepared and sleep in the shade of the tractor to avoid sunburn.

Local chap North Devon Ilfracombe was still roofing at aged 70 up to a few years ago. Every lunch hour he would have a snooze in the front of the van then back to work on the dot after his hour!!

We have a sniper in our work who has a full time job on night shift especially when the fuel teams have nothing to do. I actually rarely fall asleep although I can shut my eyes and go into standby mode which is good for detecting doors opening, pagers, radio traffic and telephone calls. Usually a good way to kill an hour in the deadzone before final rounds.

We do have others with that magic button fitted to their arse though, my team leader is quite proficient at sitting in his office with the door shut, heating up and bolt upright dead to the world. He once woke up to find a pile of kitkats, mars bars and stuff had appeared on his desk courtesy of the assistant shift charge ( who from that day became known as the chocolate fairy) delivering our engagement survey incentives.

A few years ago we changed our shift pattern to 12 hour shifts, part of the deal was we where entitled to a 20 minute break every 4 hours and we where provided with a couple of "quiet rooms", complete with four "lazy boy" reclining armchairs. 🙂 There's a rumour that other sites (up North) had a similar deal but had Sky TV htrown in too.

I used to be a regular snoozer at work.
On one job there'd be five or six of us on shelves for three hours every day !!
It started affecting my sleeping patterns so I stopped.
When I've done nights( not often thank goodness) I've had to have a little lie down.
Then I used to like a power nap,630 -755,on early shift ,radio on full blast,but since the boy has arrived I've lost the ability... Pah

I worked (loosely) for a large insurance company and would attend quite lengthy and very dull weekly pricing meetings with multiple presentation from actuarial teams. After a while I developed a skill to sleep witth with my eyes open and provide generic but plausible answers to questions I hadnt actually heard.

All seemed to work out quite nicely, hadnt a clue what I was doing though, hence your premiums 🙂

You can keep going round and round half the afternoon in undisturbed bliss.

Not any more! Circle line is now end to end!

After a while I developed a skill to sleep witth with my eyes open and provide generic but plausible answers to questions I hadnt actually heard.

If your eyes are open and you're able to answer questions (even if you've not listened to the question) then surely you're not asleep? Merely day dreaming.

I used to work with a chap who fell asleep at his desk (in a large open plan office). He'd just casually nod off and his head would droop. Then he'd end up waking himself up with a jolt and repeat. Most afternoons!

We actually have a written procedure for night-shift workers allowing us 20 minutes kip if we feel tired. I make regular use of it.

Is that where you got your username?

No.. its my surname, i was part of da management that found them 🙁

Used to work with a guy who would fall asleep regularly (some underlying medical condition).

Wasn't allowed to drive but had fallen off his bike twice as he'd fallen asleep whilst riding along, another time he fell asleep with a mug of hot tea, which got knocked over and scalded his nethers.

We work all kinds of random hours (event lighting), so it's far from unusual to find guys wrapped up in a pile of drapes backstage, or to arrive for an early call to find large flightcases containing a bubble wrap mattress and a soundly snoring lampy who's just finished a strike somewhere else.

My trick was to be able to doze off during a focusing session up on the truss - Normally there would be 2 of us working - 1 each side of the room, and there may well be a 20 minute interlude whilst a batch of lamps opposite me got focused by the other guy. I could lie down flat on the truss, which was conveniently just wider than my shoulder blades, 40' up in the air (clipped on natch). Nice and warm from the heat of the lamps and just drift off for a bit.

nhs mental health,

done shifts on elderly wards where a full bed was wheeled brought out for sleep purposes
acute mental health ward, unused bedrooms used for sleep, starting midnight, 3 staff, 2 hours each,
fell asleep on a escort for clozapine bloods once like a nodding dog in the very very warm waiting area, smacked my head on the windowsill behind me

used to work at Forbouys in my college age youth, regularly fell not long after opening, could always tell by the piles of correct change on the counter 😀

My bro-in-law used to be in charge of a large office in the Philippines and couldn't believe it when he first started there to find that everyone had a pillow in their bottom drawer which they got out whenever they felt like a nap and went to sleep at their desk.

Comms rooms tend to be safe havens, if sometimes a little cool and noisy.

many moons ago when i was in engineering, our machine shop was next to the forge, where they heated and pressed large crankshafts. it was always understood that the day shift would crack on, leaving the night shift well ahead. we'd regularly be done for 11pm (end of shift 6am) and find a nice little office or hideyhole in the warm forge for a decent nights sleep. i even bought a camp bed just for that purpose and hid it away 😀

not much difference in the fire service surely sadexpunk 😆

Nope sorry I've no idea what you're on about.

not much difference in the fire service surely sadexpunk

ill have you know we do 96hrs (often 120) straight through these days, doing retained cover at nights in between our days. thats us out every shout in that period. the 'being paid to sleep' days are a thing of the past now here, its cuts cuts cuts. anyways shhhhh, politics has no place in a thread about snooooozing 😉

still, rural lincolnshire in winter, I'm sure theres the easy days before tackling the roaring hay bale fires of summer 😉

As an apprentice for a v/large telecoms outfit (early 80's) when I was doing my stint on exchange construction I was in a large Strowger (yes those clicking uni-selectors etc) telephone exchange. The equipment racks were 10-12ft tall with ladders you could slide along the rows to get access to the equipment. Above those were all the cables connecting everything with nothing ever recovered so you had 40-50 years worth of copper cabling as well as the bus bars (inches thick 50V DC power)Anyhows engineers in the know after the usual liquid lunch would go up above the racks into the cabling where there had been 'nests' cunningly created and handed down from generation to generation, that if you went up to the top of the ladders and peeked above the cabling and bus bars all you could see would be a sea of cables and not someone sleeping off a few pints from the Horse n Jockey. As an apprentice you were spry enough to be sent scurrying up into the cabling hunting down the miscreants by the manager in charge of the project and thereby cunningly inducted into the knowledge of the locations of the nests.

the 'being paid to sleep' days are a thing of the past now here,

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My favourite trick with the wife and kids is to pretend to fall asleep when Im driving, M6 approaching Tebay North or Beattock south bound always gets the best laugh 😆

We were doing an event in Glasgow on thursday night... We got the setup done a bit faster than planned and I had an epic beef chili to sleep off so I nipped up the back and stretched out over a row of seats. None of my lovely colleagues saw fit to tell me they were opening the doors so I woke up to find the room filling with parents and potential students 😆 No dignified way to do it so I just rose up out of hte seating like dracula from a coffin and said hello.

OTOH, I worked in a theatre one summer and superbly, one of the shows had a bed for a prop, so I snuck off often for a quick snooze. Didn't even occur to me there might be other people with the same idea, I climbed into the darkened prop store and hopped on and my boss was already in the bed 😆

I sleep often on my lunch, one of the great downsides of a kindle is it switches off after a while so it's either really obvious that you're asleep, or people think you can't read and are just pretending.

Been working shifts for nearly 20 years now and although I've never intentionally fallen asleep it has happened. Being awake for 20-25 hrs has that affect on people...

A few... When I did the stack emissions testing we had to take readings every 7.5 minutes, we had the 5 min micro sleep perfected after some long evenings on expenses and off to the local club/meat market on a Wed night.
Another job I had the opportunity lyrics access to a locked office in a secure area. So the day after me and some of the lads from work did a mid week overnight kayak trip to one of the islands on the lake I had some important stuff to sort down there. These days it's just on the plane

Worked in a soap factory just after leaving school, tidying cardboard into the huge cardboard skip in the yard, climbed in mid summers day - woke up hours later after everyone had gone home.

Years later and commissioning polyurethane foam plants for a living-got a plant up an running in Bursa, Turkey - red hot upper 30's lower 40degrees. Made some large 2m square blocks of black soft automotive foam the day before that were sat in the yard. Had lunch, full stomach, fell asleep on them in the early afternoon sun. Woke up in a huge pool of sweat, ended up in hospital on intravenous drips for massive dehydration! Dearly died !

It's known as 'horizontal engineering' in these here parts and is a regular occurance on night shifts once the work is done:-)
We had someone leave our section as he couldn't get enough sleep on night shifts meaning he had to sleep during the day, it really cramped his life style apparantly8O

door that sounded like thunder from the inside. Ergo plenty of Friday morning hangovers slept off in there.

I used to calibrate electronic test equipment and the cal room door had the loudest squeak which would wake me if anyone came in. I'd pick a tester that had a large number of tests, set it up then go to sleep in the chair. If someone came in the squeak would wake me and I'd hit the button to resume the test. Some **** oiled the door and ruined that for me though.

I work as a charge nurse on a psychiatric intensive care unit. In my time I have walked into an extra care area to find the patient and staff member say side by side both fast asleep. People nodding off in morning handover is kit uncommon either. Night staff us d to turn in from midnight until 6, having given enough sleeping tablets out to knock out a small army.

Myself, when I worked as a security guard I used to perfect the hour of sleep, write my entry in the log and make the call to control then back to sleep. Reading the entries back on the morning was sometimes interesting "that bloody dog keeps barking, the dog loves making the new noise" being a particular favourite (one that was quickly removed from the record and destroyed). When working on a ward with hay fever I nabbed a piriton, then had to have a 10 minute power nap as I was a little drowsy, however my crowing achievement was during my tenure as a ward manager when I had my own office. Door locked and blinds drawn I must have slept through plenty of paid hours without any noticeable detriment to my work.

I'm just coming to the end of a night shift now, I'm amazed I'm still awake to be honest.

A few years ago we changed our shift pattern to 12 hour shifts, part of the deal was we where entitled to a 20 minute break every 4 hours and we where provided with a couple of "quiet rooms", complete with four "lazy boy" reclining armchairs. There's a rumour that other sites (up North) had a similar deal but had Sky TV htrown in too.

Sounds familiar, was that negotiated for the Optechs at NJC or LJC level? 😉

If we work for the same company I heard it was Playstations. We'd be happy just to get off our 8 hour pattern, only buggers in the fleet still on it!

A student summer job was spent working in a certain confectionary manufacturers factory in a lovely Slough trading estate as a nightshift cleaner. I often wondered where nearly everyone else went as I seemed to be pretty much on my own when there. Soon found out loads of the night cleaners and maintenance staff used to go out on the factory roof and sleep the entire shift up there, even bringng their own sleeping bags in case it got a bit chilly. As a side issue I have avoided their products since then since I remember where the floor sweepings often ended up.

Funny how BAE Systems has come up twice in this thread.... Gti Junior went to the Warton plant for a week last year on work experience; he didn't actually see much work being done but he learned a lot about male banter and the avoidance of work.

A few mates who were up their years back on placements used to take it in turns to go in at 6am swipe all the cards then the rest would show up when the hangover had subsidised

Overheard two dads at Wee uns gymnastic class, one saying to the firedad - 'you get to sleep don't you' response was 'aye but not as long as we used to, only from 11 til 7 now' 😆

Overheard two dads at Wee uns gymnastic class, one saying to the firedad - 'you get to sleep don't you' response was 'aye but not as long as we used to, only from 11 til 7 now'

Poor chaps.

My dad tells the story of guys going off for a snooze at Brittish Aerospace, Filton, when he was an apprentice.
They had some old diss used water tanks at the back of one of the hangars. Nice and quiet.
One of his friends woke up to find he had done three hours of overtime, after dropping off during lunch!
The foreman used to wake them up, if he caught them by wacking the tank with a lump hammer.

Also, another chap who fell asleep leaning against the concertina doors of a hangar. The doors were opened, he didn't wake up again! 🙁

When I was a student, I had a job at a dingy nightclub in Bristol (Maze) and I remember falling asleep once at about 2am when I was on the cloakroom. Only odd thing was, that the cloakroom was right next to the main dance floor and the speakers were pumping out hardcore techno! Happy hardcore nights were great fun, but there was something about techno music that made me nod off...

I've also fallen asleep during a sermon at church once (who hasn't?), but I was leading worship at the time and didn't wake up when the vicar finished preaching. It was a fairly big church, and to the side of the stage there were some stairs leading down to the crypt where I couldn't be seen from the congregation. I wandered over to them at the start of the sermon and sat down, then promptly nodded off. I only woke when I heard the band start up, and it took me a few seconds to realise that I was meant to be up there playing with them. I stumbled out of my hiding place, picked up my guitar and joined in. It was only after the service that I found out that everyone was really quite concerned for me because they'd spent about 5 minutes asking if anyone knew where I was!

My old boss used to be a foreman looking after a team of sparkies in the steelworks.

Apparently one of his charges would secure his overalls in a vice so he could fall asleep stood up to avoid detection if someone were to just glance in.

I worked with some guys who use to sleep against the wall of the compressor house with big cardboard boxes over their heads, the combination of vibration, warmth from the wall and darkness in the box, they slept soundly for hours.
On Thursday nights the foreman use to wake them from their slumber to give them their wages!

politics has no place in a thread about snooooozing

Just resting their eyes:

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I drive my campervan to work... Often in there at lunch time having a nice snooze. Really helped when my first was born. Always worked better in the afternoon after that.

Just remembered this one... My wee brother worked in a file warehouse for a big insurer one summer, massive crazy labyrinth of paper, some live files but mostly a place for paper to die. Apparently it was like tomb raider finding the right files so the management didn't stress at all if you did a 10 hour shift and only produced a handful of papers, it was just assumed they were hard to find. But this one old dude would disappear into the place for hours...

On Dave's last day, the dude showed him the secret- he'd built a hollow into the box racks the size of a small hotel room, and had installed carpet, a reclining armchair, and a wee portable TV 😆 Secret cave!