Whats your story and can it beat this one?

http://www.yikers.com/video_asleep_on_the_job.html

Only once, but my passengers at the back of the bus kept waking me up for some reason.

Yeah a couple of times, the girlfriend wasn't too happy...

yeah i have a few times . when i worked for my dad though so it didn't matter as much LOL . a quick half hour in the office never hurt anyone

lol @ billy .


and i wish i hadn't watched the snake and baby vid that was shown at the end of that seriously disturbing .

When I worked drywall during summers at college, I use to nap on the job all the time.

I've been found sleeping either on or near my desk...several times.

Me? It's my natural state of being. Let's just say it's my way of protesting when classes are boring

LOTS of times.
Even working behind the counter at a coffee shop. Standing up.

Man, you folks are hilarious! I've been having a hard time staying awake on the job for the last two weeks...things are slow going right now. I have yet to start snoring...it's just a matter of time.

I used to work for a video store, there by myself all day long from 10am to 11pm. It's a rural place, so not many people come in at one time. One day I fell asleep with my head on the counter. One person had already came and left, the second person woke me up.

I work 24 hour shifts...kind of expected to sleep on the job...

There've been plenty of times I've been working on shows 18 or 20 hours a day, and have napped in the theatre* between rehearsal periods or production meetings, so I have napped at the work place, but not necessarily whilst working.

--Jaylemurph

*There are Equity rules for some theatres and companies to have beds for actors in such situations. My union's not that good. I get the floor.

.....remind me not to take the bus anymore.

Never.

Although there were a few times I've come close to dozing off.

At school, home, cars, weddings, roofs (where replacing gutters and shingles and whatnot with my Dad and uncles, I just dozed off, good thing I didn't fall off), and during a drive thru (I wasn't driving, but it took them a long time to fill out the order since some of their machines weren't working)...

Once I get a job you can add it to the list.

I don't know how you guys do it I know if I was awaken by the fire bell the only scrambling I would be doing would be my arm searching for the snooze button...keep up the good work

I've slept at work on purpose and on accident.

Many many years ago (1980's) I worked for Starbucks. We had a massive unexpected snow storm that trapped a lot of people unaware. I let about 15 stranded people into the store all night. I slept under the icemaker for a few hours.

Several years after that, I was working at Microsoft on the Windows NT release and it was so critical to get the product out the door that I spent 5.5 straight days at work (yes, with no shower ARG!) ... I slept for a few hours here and there on a sofa outside the MSNBC studio... naturally, many practical jokes were played on me. I had my shoe laces tied together, a bull horn blasted into my ear, my coffee cup duct taped to my hand and the sofa... not good. haha.

I also unintentionally fell asleep on a data center floor waiting for an HP technician to show up and replace some hardware for me. Datacenters are often used by MANY different companies, and each company's section is cordoned off with a chain link fence. I awoke to 3 HP techs yelling and rattling the fence trying to wake me and get inside to do their job. That was embarassing. LOL

I think the tech industry is making old LONG before my time. LOL

thats understandable!

Never ever!

you crack me up Billy La lah,

Yes, but it was during my break so im not in trouble.

Ya betcha, during 4-8 watch on a ship. Skipper caught me too... but I was awake real fast when he asked me if i was sleeping... snapped to attention and said: No Sir, I was praying.....

Nice. LOL

Damnit you got there first again.

It was almost a religious experience.. I heard a voice..
"Billy..Billy take it..look and the title...it's handed to you on a silver plate."

"yes my lord, I will."

I used to work in an office job, and there was this TINY little dungeon of a room, basically a glorified closet, filled with about ten filing cabinets. When it was slow we had to file, so I would go back there and lean my chair up against the door and take naps. The door opened into the room so if someone tried to open it they woke me up. LOL! It was perfect. They never had any idea.

I build extensions so ive fell asleep on the job loads of times and im only 16 well 17 this friday.

Once we were on this job and it was nearly finished it was all built just odd bits to be added like all the furniture put in and few odd jobs the plumber would do, well my boss said to me that i had to just stay and clean up the job a little wash the mono block etc well i was really tired and i fell asleep in the clients kitchen lol.

Another time i was workin the weekend shift and came in with a hang over lol my boss told me to sleep in the van (yeah i do have a really good boss if thats what youre wondering lol well hes a fore man) it was a quick day

errrrr I was fired because of it. Damn Mono while a teen!

ooh just to shut one's eyes for a moment

I think I should be in bed now to be honest, 4.15am

Nah, just a while longer

I tend to keep really weird hours. Go to bed at 12:30-1:00am, get up at 4:30am to head for work for 5. Sometimes, if I haven't gotten rolling yet, I'll sit in the dark dining room and take a 5-10 minute cat nap before any of the residents come in. I did get interupted once by the laundry lady bringing up the aprons, that sucked. Just about to doze off then BRIGHT lights.

I've had a lot of close calls. Slow day, just ate lunch... I'm pretty close to falling asleep right now and I have PT in about an hour.

I remember when I was in BMT I took a couple of chances, while on quarters from coughing and fever, to sleep on the benches in the shower area and on the floor in the day room.

no i never fell asleep but I used to lay down in the stock room with the door locked.

lol that actually happened to me once after a night out --- mine thought it was hilarious !!! soooooooo embarrassing. lol


and on a job ? yes once , sitting up in the middle of a shopping crowd when I was 19 and working 70 + hours a week for a few weeks. I found out I had mono shortly afterwards from overworking.

how do you do that?

Any person sleeping on the job should be immediately fired.

That happened to me, i fell asleep in a canon when i worked for the circus.

What is this some kind of sick joke? I haven't slept for over 24+ hours... I have to stay up till at least 8:30 so I can fix my schedule for Christmas. Soooooo sleeeeeepppyyyyyyy!

The Mrs refuses me if I'm too steaming nowadays. I suppose it has something to do with me nearly suffocating her after passing out missionary style once too often. I'm not a heavy guy but a real dead weight after ten pints...

I had the same calling.

I fell asleep, but i think i was still moving as i was woken with the words "have you finished"

he he
Can't really say I blame her there!
I fell asleep at the studio once on a pile of some backgrounds and props. I had a headache and thought I would just lay down for a couple minutes. I woke up with a client standing over me.

I work a 12 hour night shift with 2 other people doing pretty much nothing. We intentionally rotate sleeping on a cot in our back office

-C

they didn't fire me for falling asleep on my break - even though I was 20 minutes late. they fired me after I went to the doctors and found out I had mononucleosis and got mad because I couldn't come in to work . they didn't care that I was sick !

thankfully that boss , who was the owners son in law , got busted stealing from the registers. they were blaming the tellers untill they rigged it ( this was before CCTV) and found out he was the one doing the stealing. yet no apologies to us.

Never, not once. I can be as tired as hell and hold on if I am in a place that is not my own home. I mean drop dead tired. Even in my own home, I will get a grip enough to decide if I wanna kick it on the couch or my bed.