Ever fall asleep in work or meeting?

L.Jenkins

I've fallen sleep on a couple of occasions in work and meeting. On one occasion, I was testing applications on aging servers. Things were going so slow and with nothing else to keep me busy, I fell asleep at my desk.

I also have a bad habit of falling asleep in meetings, having to listen to utter shite, while sitting on a comfortable chair, in a warm, darkened room.

A more memorable occasion in which I fell asleep, I was at a talk, given by a Brigider General, when I was a Reserve having just completed my NCOs course. I was tired and couldn't be fucked at the time.

nullzero

I always thought meetings were intended as a cure for insomnia.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I came into work really really sick because I was the only one with keys and I spent the day laying on a bed in one of the treatment rooms because I wasn't well enough to work. I can't remember if I dozed off though

Mr. Incognito

No, i havent.

You should be fired or checked by a doctor.

TSMGUY

Feel asleep in maths class once. Never again, the teacher gave me a right bollocking. Could've been the whimsical likable teacher who shouts "BOO!" or some **** like that but no..... he went bat**** on me.

osarusan

Went to work still drunk one time in a part-time job years and years ago. I wasn't able to see properly or focus at all.

So i loaded lots of backup units onto the assembly line to buy myself some time, then went to the toilet and fell asleep. Woke up a couple of hours later, just as the last of the backup units was reaching the end of the line to be used by somebody else. I was able to work by that point, and nobody worked out what had happened.

Samaris

Had a devil of a time with it in uni. A bad bout of illness left me with chronic fatigue and I was trying to do a masters when I was only awake for about 2hrs a day (not even exaggerating). It was like having narcolepsy or something. No matter how I tried not to, I'd be dozing off in classes (and I'm a fairly studious sort by nature). My longest awake period in a stretch would be about 25-30 minutes. It was pretty nightmarish, to be honest. I was dosing myself with caffeine, damn near caused my liver damage with the amount of energy drinks I was gulping down. Caffeine tablets, ALL the coffee. Nothing helped, although it's built up my caffeine tolerance to the point where I can drink black coffee and then go to bed with no issues!

I've had it for coming on eight years now. It's improved a lot, but sometimes I still get relapses. In my current job, I've had it happen twice, once today, but no-one noticed fortunately. A lot of it was driving (I was a passenger!). The last time, annoyingly, it was while I was being trained in something, which is never a good time for it to happen. >.>

Miss Demeanour

I have a big beanbag at work and though have been tempted some mornings I have resisted the urge......so far....

cantdecide

Miss Demeanour wrote: »

I have a big beanbag at work and though have been tempted some mornings I have resisted the urge......so far....

I say go for it. Clearly everyone is at it and you're missing out.



I never did it myself but I work in a large, open plan office and there was a particular guy near me that would take 40 winks most days after lunch. The rest of us had an unspoken agreement to keep sketch.

chrissb8

Meetings are for people who talk alot but don't actually say much.

Permabear

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TSMGUY

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I read something on wallstreetoasis saying you hedge fund managers work for like 12 hours a day!

Stheno

I did shiftwork in a callcentre years ago and we moved from weekday nights to weekend days.

One of the guys was a bit of a pot head, and regularly spent three hours on the SUnday morning fast asleep.

He ended up being fired.

Permabear

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TSMGUY

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Jesus Christ, I thought only analysts worked that much. What would the ballpark median salary be among average hedge fund managers? Not your salary, just the ballpark aggregate mean. Or is there too much variance in the industry to find an average?

Stheno

TSMGUY wrote: »

Jesus Christ, I thought only analysts worked that much. What would the ballpark median salary be among average hedge fund managers? Not your salary, just the ballpark aggregate mean. Or is there too much variance in the industry to find an average?

In the states, about 400k plus bonuses

TSMGUY

Stheno wrote: »

In the states, about 400k plus bonuses

400k dollars isn't that much! I mean for 100 hour work weeks and a ****-ton of work you'd be better of just doing radiology surely.

Stheno

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400k dollars isn't that much! I mean for 100 hour work weeks and a ****-ton of work you'd be better of just doing radiology surely.

The bonuses exceed that in multiples.

The Backwards Man

In Donegal, we'll manage your hedge for €500 a week no problem

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dinorebel

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

No, i havent.

You should be fired or checked by a doctor.

He did it Incognito.

The_Valeyard

Homer Simpson has the solution!!!

TSMGUY

Stheno wrote: »

The bonuses exceed that in multiples.

Ah, I see. Kind of bastardizes the word "bonus" though. "Oh look, I have a 400k salary and a little 3 MILLION DOLLAR "bonus""

The Backwards Man

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And I bet he wouldn't know the first thing about cleaning fuschia roots out of a sewer pipe either.

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LunarSea

TSMGUY wrote: »

Jesus Christ, I thought only analysts worked that much. What would the ballpark median salary be among average hedge fund managers? Not your salary, just the ballpark aggregate mean. Or is there too much variance in the industry to find an average?

Who gives a fúck about the salary, if I had to work 80 to 100 hours a week I'd have topped myself years ago.

TSMGUY

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Not too shabby! Don't think I could survive 100 hour work weeks without falling asleep at work but you definitely earn your money, at least more than finance guys are given credit for. It's not all Quaaludes and ****ing Margot Robbie!

The Backwards Man

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Just goes to show, all the millions in the world are no good to you if you're meeting your own shite at your bathroom door:pac:

Stheno

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The performance criteria are fairly massive, to earn that bonus they would net their companies/clients hundreds of millions

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What's that economic principle that states that if it costs you more to do something compared to your pay, than it would cost you to pay someone to do it, that it's imprudent? It's not Laffer, but not dissimilar

The Backwards Man

Stheno wrote: »

The performance criteria are fairly massive, to earn that bonus they would net their companies/clients hundreds of millions



What's that economic principle that states that if it costs you more to do something compared to your pay, than it would cost you to pay someone to do it, that it's imprudent? It's not Laffer, but not dissimilar

It's called the fool's principle, never pay some eejit of an expert to do something you're quite capable of making a balls of yourself.

Say what you want about Richard Branson, but the man knows how to clean a grease trap.

TSMGUY

Stheno wrote: »

The performance criteria are fairly massive, to earn that bonus they would net their companies/clients hundreds of millions



What's that economic principle that states that if it costs you more to do something compared to your pay, than it would cost you to pay someone to do it, that it's imprudent? It's not Laffer, but not dissimilar

law of comparative advantage? And fair enough on that count, it's insane how money is generated by playing on fluctuations in the values of stocks/currencies. While I'm in a thread with 2 finance guys (and sorry to the OP for derailing), what's your opinion on Forex? Fool's gold?

Stheno

TSMGUY wrote: »

law of comparative advantage? And fair enough on that count, it's insane how money is generated by playing on fluctuations in the values of stocks/currencies. While I'm in a thread with 2 finance guys (and sorry to the OP for derailing), what's your opinion on Forex? Fool's gold?

I'm neither a guy or working in Finance, I work in IT and have had intimate exposure to hedge fund guys through various roles
I'm also risk averse

As to Backwards man, while I might know how to mow the lawn, if I am working 80 hour weeks earning 1000 a day*, do you suggest I pay my garderner to mow the lawn or spend some of my precious leisure time relaxing?

What about my ironing service?

*Note, this is not the case irl for me in case you get ideas :pac:

TSMGUY

Stheno wrote: »

I'm neither a guy or working in Finance, I work in IT and have had intimate exposure to hedge fund guys through various roles
I'm also risk averse

As to Backwards man, while I might know how to mow the lawn, if I am working 80 hour weeks earning 1000 a day*, do you suggest I pay my garderner to mow the lawn or spend some of my precious leisure time relaxing?

What about my ironing service?

*Note, this is not the case irl for me in case you get ideas :pac

Yeah forget my other question, tell us more about that:D

The Backwards Man

Stheno wrote: »

I'm neither a guy or working in Finance, I work in IT and have had intimate exposure to hedge fund guys through various roles
I'm also risk averse

As to Backwards man, while I might know how to mow the lawn, if I am working 80 hour weeks earning 1000 a day*, do you suggest I pay my garderner to mow the lawn or spend some of my precious leisure time relaxing?

What about my ironing service?

*Note, this is not the case irl for me in case you get ideas :pac:

Depends on the nature of the job. If you're working 80 hours a week sitting on your arse all day I suggest you invest in a walk behind mower to give you some much needed exercise instead of seizing up altogether, if you're work is physically demanding then I suggest paying a gardener and pretending you're a hedge fund manager by backing horses on Paddy Power all day.:D

Stheno

TSMGUY wrote: »

Yeah forget my other question, tell us more about that:D

I more meant the "my bloody computer is down fix it now" type exposure

TSMGUY

Stheno wrote: »

I more meant the "my bloody computer is down fix it now" type exposure

A rich man..... a woman......a computer...... this story just keeps getting kinkier! Next you're gonna tell me he took his USB stick out and shared his data:pac::pac::pac:

Stheno

TSMGUY wrote: »

A rich man..... a woman......a computer...... this story just keeps getting kinkier! Next you're gonna tell me he took his USB stick out and shared his data:pac::pac::pac:

You clearly have no real life outside of boards.

Keep fantasising dude.

You ever met the average woman who works in IT?

Not for a rich man.

TSMGUY

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You clearly have no real life outside of boards.

Keep fantasising dude.

You ever met the average woman who works in IT?

Not for a rich man.[/QUOTE]

I thought that was already abundantly clear

Stheno

TSMGUY wrote: »

I thought that was already abundantly clear

It is now

TSMGUY

Stheno wrote: »

It is now

:(:(

The Backwards Man

Anyway, back on topic, when I was doing my finals in college I was running a nightclub back in Inishowen and taking fish to Mary's Lane three nights a week, so I had this on repeat when I was studying and somehow managed to get a 1st. Go me

YFlyer

TSMGUY wrote: »

Jesus Christ, I thought only analysts worked that much. What would the ballpark median salary be among average hedge fund managers? Not your salary, just the ballpark aggregate mean. Or is there too much variance in the industry to find an average?

Like Ray Dalio?

hairyslug

We had a staff party of a Thursday (why do they have staff nights out on a Thursday) we went straight from drinking to work. By about 10 both myself and my boss where asleep in a small office. The general manager turns up as he had mixed his coat up with my bosses (we worked off site) as he walks in, I lift my head from the desk, get sick into the bin and fall asleep again on the desk

Esel

More to the point - ever wake up in work or at a meeting?

Edit: Hadn't read the post above before posting this.

Ficheall

TSMGUY wrote: »

Feel asleep in maths class once. Never again, the teacher gave me a right bollocking. Could've been the whimsical likable teacher who shouts "BOO!" or some **** like that but no..... he went bat**** on me.

You would be hard-pressed to find a mathematical lecture or seminar where one of the attendees is not asleep. I remember at the first conference I attended, there were three leading mathematicians asleep in the front row at one point.

764dak

I once fell asleep on the toilet at work.

Chain Smoker

I've had naps at work, but it's one of those startup type places where they nearly expect you to do that ****.

razorblunt

In work, I was dozing off in a meeting once. My manager copped it but left me off as it was a demo session where it was Day 2 in the office after completing a Grad training program in the States and I was still struggling to catch up on my sleep with the jetlag.

I've been in some boring meetings since and I've excused myself if I weren't getting any value from it and finding it a struggle.

On a related not, I think I told this story before on here but I did some work abroad on a client site for about 7 months. We were stuck in a room with a team of contractors they had hired and one guy in particular was known for going for a nap in the loo. Normally over his lunch break but there was one loo in the place so I had no shame in booting him out. This then progressed to falling asleep at his desk, proper head back, mouth open type stuff. His boss was also a contractor went past the point of caring but effectively said his contract wouldn't be renewed in 2 months time, it was in France so they couldn't cut him loose sooner for whatever reason.
Anyway, this guy knows his time is up and starts applying elsewhere, unbeknownst to everyone he leaves at 12 one day to go to an interview. Apparently he was told take a seat and they'll call him in. He fall asleep sitting down in the reception, was waiting only 5 minutes apparently. They came out to get him, saw him and left him there, his interviewer knew his boss and rang to tell him what happened. Apparently he woke up over an hour later and just came back to the office.