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
hmmmm...... youre a bad lad 🙂
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
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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!
