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Ever fall asleep in work or meeting?

  • 27-07-2016 11:31PM
    #1
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


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


  • #3
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #4
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    No, i havent.

    You should be fired or checked by a doctor.


  • #5
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #7
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭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. >.>


  • #8
    Miss Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


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


  • #9
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    chrissb8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭chrissb8


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


  • #11
    Permabear
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  • #12
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


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


  • #13
    Stheno
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    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.


  • #14
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #15
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Permabear wrote: »
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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?


  • #16
    Stheno
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    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


  • #17
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    Stheno
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    TSMGUY wrote: »
    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.


  • #19
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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


  • #20
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #21
    dinorebel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    No, i havent.

    You should be fired or checked by a doctor.
    He did it Incognito.


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  • #22
    The_Valeyard
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    Homer Simpson has the solution!!!




  • #23
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭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""


  • #24
    The Backwards Man
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    Permabear wrote: »
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    And I bet he wouldn't know the first thing about cleaning fuschia roots out of a sewer pipe either.


  • #25
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #26
    LunarSea
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    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.


  • #27
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Permabear wrote: »
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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!


  • #28
    The Backwards Man
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    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    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:


  • #29
    Stheno
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    TSMGUY wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

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


  • #30
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭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?


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