Have you ever caught someone sleeping on the job? My boss called me over to her desk this afternoon so that I could hear the snores coming from the other side of her cubicle wall. It was one of my crankiest co-workers, a husky old man who is known for yelling at anyone who doesn't appear to be working as hard as possible. He was asleep for at least an hour.

i got fired from a job once for getting caught sleeping.

i felt really stupid.

The best firing I ever witnessed was when a co-worker submitted his college grades in an attempt to receive tuition reimbursement. He had a 5.0 GPA. Impressive? Not really, because the school has switched to a 4-point grading scale three years earlier. Everything was faked.

Oh, man, I used to work summers in high school at my dad's family practice. Some mornings he'd drop me off there early, an hour before patients arrived, on his way elsewhere. I'd lie down on the floor of his office, with my legs dangling out in the hallway, using a shoe as a pillow, and sleep off the doobs I smoked the previous night with a few extra zzzzz. I would always dream about someone arriving and walking in on me.

that makes me think of a few years ago when that emo-brat band saves the day faked their soundscans and wrote down that they sold more cd's than they actually had pressed.

i used to take naps in my boss' office cuz he had a couch in there, but i'm all about CAR NAPS. best way to spend your lunch hour.

i also used to sleep in the isolation room when i worked saturdays at a daycare. it had a really tiny little toilet.

I come home sometimes at lunch and take naps. Course I live across the street so, yay to that.

Back when I directed newscasts, I would take naps between newscasts in a conference room or something.

As I've posted before, I've been caught sleeping at work.

Didn't get fired, though.

I fall asleep in class all the time and have yet to have a professor call me out on it

At my old job, I used to sit around for hours on end drinking chocolate milk, eating skittles, and looking up cd's online.

I had work that needed to be done, but I was the only one on staff and there were no customers.

my job was cool for a while.
there was a couch there where you were free to take naps as long as you got your shit done. No one abused it and everyone got their work done. Everyone was happy.

then the company got bigger and bigger and the naps were wiped out.

everyone got cranky, the quality of work dipped, moral dipped and then everyone quit.



naps should be encouraged at jobs that demand your creativity.

was this the same one you got fired from and started a thread saying 'OMG Y R I FIRED'?

I take naps on my lunch breaks. I hate going to work so much that I start to feel sick.
It wasn't like this at my old job. This job, night shifts, everyone leaves Elizabeth at the register to do all of the work, while she watches the 5 other employees sit in the office and talk and laugh and eat and drink.. and most importantly, sit down.

Selfish bastards.

the faint buzz that comes from too many flourescent lights combined with poor ventilation systems will send me into a frenzy some days...I would constantly fall asleep during meetings at work even if I was wide awake just before going into the room, all because of the ventilation and the lights...I have to warn people now

I used to work at a pizza place, and for awhile I was the doughboy. I had to arrive at like 6 am to make the dough for all that day's pizzas. I would usually nap on the deep freeze for like 45 minutes.

when i worked for a big, ugly corporation, it was common to see people sleep during their breaks and lunch and none of the bosses seemed to care.

there was one guy that pushed it to the limit, though. i noticed a crowd outside of his cubicle and when i peeked inside, i saw that his upper body was sprawled across his desk and he was snoring and drooling. he was fired later that day.

i fell asleep in anthropology class my freshman year of college. i was hunched over the attached desk during a movie. when i woke up, everyone was walking out of the room. i didn't want to look like i'd been sleeping for 45 minutes, so i stood up and started to walk away. too bad my legs had fallen asleep and i fell in front of all of my classmates.

My cousin Guy got fired from a boiler technician job at McCain's when he was found asleep inside a shaft. He weighs about 300 pounds, too.

sometimes in walking on the creatives floor you find people sleeping. i found the resident crazy copywriter sleeping in her chair with her winter coat on.

I used to be all about the car nap. These days, I just wish I had the time for a break.

i can go home and nap on my lunch break
but sometimes my one hour turns into two

In college I was so tired that I went into a class that wasn't mine and went to sleep.

I worked a job like this in HS. Also, this is when I started to HATE smokers, cos everyone would take 'smoke breaks' but if I wanted to sit down for 5 mins, the manage would get pissed.

At my office, there is a "Wellness Room" that's sole purpose is for hungover employees to be able to take a nap. I guess if you are genuinely sick, you use it to.