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Wow! Thanks everyone! I feel MUCH better now.

I was out cold. If it weren't for my cell phone ringing, I prolly would have slept all night!

Yeah - I had a "real job" long time ago just out of college reading financial reports and collecting financial statistics - very exciting work. Need I say more? I used to fall asleep at my desk regularly.

The best part was my supervisor's reaction during numerous performance reviews -

"Oh and one more thing. It has come to my attention that you have been seen sleeping at your desk again . . ." followed by 15 minute discussion about my personal life (many late nights ) and strategies I might employ to stay awake at work . . .

Why they didn't just fire me I'll never know!

Cheers.

I take naps at lunch ALOT; I just set my cell alarm to wake up.

Prthd119 wrote: They always turn the AC on , thinking the cold will keep us awake...It puts me right to sleep..I need to learn to bring a sweater...When I get cold? All I want to do is sleep..so I don't feel the cold anymore...

I swear our office doesn't have heat, only AC. I have a space heater underneath my desk. Quickest way to put me to sleep. I get all warm and cozy and if I don't get up and walk around, I'm out like a light

Would also help if I got more than 3-4 hours of sleep a night.

flyboy55 wrote:"Oh and one more thing. It has come to my attention that you have been seen sleeping at your desk again . . ." followed by 15 minute discussion about my personal life (many late nights ) and strategies I might employ to stay awake at work . . .

I got the beginning of that speech once a couple of years ago when I fell asleep in one of our staff meetings. I said I would be more than happy to work 40 hours a week and I'd have no problem getting enough sleep. That was the last time I ever heard about it. (I normally average 70 hours a week)

There have been afternoons when the cumulative effect of staring at program code has left me face down on the keyboard. As far as I know, I haven't been caught (or at least nobody mentioned it) and I've never crashed my desk into a tree!

rsgeist wrote:There have been afternoons when the cumulative effect of staring at program code has left me face down on the keyboard. As far as I know, I haven't been caught (or at least nobody mentioned it) and I've never crashed my desk into a tree!

I was cutting-and-pasting rows of data from a system from MS Word into MS Excel. About the most friggen boring thing EVER. over 10,000 rows of data.

LESTERPOLYESTER wrote:I fell asleep during a meeting when a very distinguished scientist in the group was presenting data. my head slammed against the conference room wall and everybody turned and looked at me -- some trying to contain their laughter others with the evil eye.

My boss just smiled and said..."Wake up Dave.." God, I was embarassed.

Sounds like your boss was a good sport about your mini nap.

I hope nobody can find out who I am because I'll probably get myself in a lot of trouble. But I fell asleep while my students were taking the FCAT. This was two years ago, but I sure feel like it today. Good thing this forum isn't blocked. Gives me something to do.

When I was 16 my first job was as the front desk clerk at a hotel.. Sat and Sun 6am-2pm ... I didn't let the hours impede my partying so many a mornings I slept on the floor with a sweater as a pillow waiting for the buzzer to ring for people to check out.

Crzy wrote:When I was 16 my first job was as the front desk clerk at a hotel.. Sat and Sun 6am-2pm ... I didn't let the hours impede my partying so many a mornings I slept on the floor with a sweater as a pillow waiting for the buzzer to ring for people to check out.

Got another one:

Many years ago I worked part-time at a combination drugstore/liquorstore (truly an odd combination) called Morgan's on E. Evans in Denver. Saturday mornings after late Friday nights (yes people DO buy booze at 8 am on Saturdays) were particularly difficult to handle, so it wasn't unusual for one guy to make a "bed" out of Jim Beam cases in the basement storeroom and catch up on sleep while the other guy ran the cash register.

The boss usually golfed on Saturday mornings and wouldn't show until after lunch, but ONE morning he walked in MUCH ealier. He didn't catch the "sleeping beauty" but he DID find the bed complete with rolled up blanket for a pillow. He hit the roof!

No confessions were forthcoming and all involved kept their silence (solidarity!!) in the face of the boss's angry interrogation. After a fews days of grumpiness he went back to being probably the best boss I ever "worked" for.

Larry, if you're out there somewhere, I hope you're still enjoying the GAME (golf that is) and thanks for the memories!

Cheers.

I'm not sure. I've been pretty exhausted lately and with health problems, I often put my head on the desk....but it's one of those in-between dazes where you're only half awake and you're not really sure if you were asleep or not. So I'm the 1 who voted "Don't Know"

IrishG wrote:I'm not sure. I've been pretty exhausted lately and with health problems, I often put my head on the desk....but it's one of those in-between dazes where you're only half awake and you're not really sure if you were asleep or not. So I'm the 1 who voted "Don't Know"

I hope you start feeling better soon. I just read what happened with Imitrex. YIKES!

I was just about to make an appointment with my doctor because of migraines that I've never really done anything about and now I'm having second guesses.

buffettbride wrote:

IrishG wrote:I'm not sure. I've been pretty exhausted lately and with health problems, I often put my head on the desk....but it's one of those in-between dazes where you're only half awake and you're not really sure if you were asleep or not. So I'm the 1 who voted "Don't Know"

I hope you start feeling better soon. I just read what happened with Imitrex. YIKES!

I was just about to make an appointment with my doctor because of migraines that I've never really done anything about and now I'm having second guesses.

I recommend Amidrine for migraines, that worked for me.

The odds of what happened to me are very low...I was just one of the unlucky few who were highly allergic to it. It didn't help that the sample he gave me (samples = no warnings, descriptions, etc) was 100 mg. Most people I know on Imitrex take 25mg and that's just fine for hteir migraines. Why the heck he gave me a 100 mg sample without knowing its effects on me has me baffled...and in poor physical health (yes, that means I'm looking into a lawsuit )

From the front page of the Imitrex website.

IMITREX is a prescription medicine for the acute treatment of migraine attacks, with or without aura, in adults. You should not take IMITREX if you have certain types of heart disease, a history of stroke or TIAs, peripheral vascular disease, Raynaud syndrome, or blood pressure that is uncontrolled. If you have risk factors for heart disease, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or are a smoker, you should be evaluated by your doctor before taking IMITREX. Very rarely, certain people, even some without heart disease, have had serious heart-related problems when taking IMITREX

I've felt myself startig to nod off a few times but I've never actually fallen asleep.

I confess... I have felt myself nodding off...but never so much as fell into a deep sleep..... so I answered no,

Yeah, I'm not sure my Dr. will be giving an RX to pack-and-a-half-a-day me.

I hate headaches.

IrishG wrote:From the front page of the Imitrex website.

IMITREX is a prescription medicine for the acute treatment of migraine attacks, with or without aura, in adults. You should not take IMITREX if you have certain types of heart disease, a history of stroke or TIAs, peripheral vascular disease, Raynaud syndrome, or blood pressure that is uncontrolled. If you have risk factors for heart disease, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or are a smoker, you should be evaluated by your doctor before taking IMITREX. Very rarely, certain people, even some without heart disease, have had serious heart-related problems when taking IMITREX

Piratical wrote:The conference room head bob

that's the same thing as church head bob, right??

I've never fallen asleep at my desk, but I did enjoy the Serenity Suites (aka nap rooms) a few times.