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Yeah, I had to do it again last night. And I don't mean falling asleep at work, I mean, sleeping at work cause you worked an 18 hour day and had to be back 6 hours later. I live an hour from my office and I just didn't see that point. My fucking back hurts.
I never have, but there was a guy where I used to work who could position himself in such a way that you couldn't even tell he was sleeping unless you were right next to him. We called him 'the master'.
I worked on two shows at once, and had to stay at work for 47 hours straight. I worked on one show from 9am-6pm in one building, then had to be at another at 7pm-5am in another building. Then back at the other one at 9, so I just slept on the couch in the edit from 5 til 8. rinse and repeat. I started sunday night at 7, and got done at 6 on tuesday. No, I did not shower.
Now I know why you share similar experiences as me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mezz
For me it's my audio room, but unfortunately I have 2 cushy chairs rather than a couch, which don't really make for good sleeping. The only couch in our post-house is in one of our leasers rooms, and I don't want them rolling into the room in the morning with some senator or something to find me sprawled out on their couch.
Not yet :/
I wish to train under this man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
I've dozed off here and there, but it's hard to actually fall asleep in an office.
I've mastered the art of coming in late, however. No one says anything and I keep getting nice raises and shit, so I guess it's all good.
I believe that was MVS. The way he described it he had that shit down to a science.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
That's amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
The most I've ever slept on the job was 1 hour at my last job. My boss was working from home, and there was literally nothing to do. I worked in an enclosed lab with a cube, and the door was about 20 feet away from me. If I positioned myself right, anyone walking past the door would see me upright and 'working at my computer'. Traffic through the lab was next to zero, so it was snooze time.
Never did the overnight thing, no need to.
I can't pull this off because I am too liable to snore.
When I worked construction I used to find an empty room, lock it, and take a nap for a few hours.
Tell me about it, you keep me up all night.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
When I worked for a furniture store [Sure Fit in Ajax], I worked with a couple of guys I had known since grade 2. This place was a factory outlet and sold furnishings, cushions, etc. We used to burrow a little nest behind a row of cushions on the shelf and hollow it out into a bed, then take 2 hour shifts sleeping, since there were 2 guys to do any of the work no one ever asked where the third was.
Once when I worked as a halfpipe groomer at a local ski area I was on the clock for 36 hours straight. Intermittently between being on the mountain I took naps on the floor in my office, on a bench in the ski school, and in the passenger seat of my car, all the while being paid. Unfortunately being "seasonal work" there is no overtime pay, so its not like I put one over on my employer.
I was a snowboard instructor for a couple seasons, and I NEVER worked. We would go to lineup to get our classes, and me and my boys would hide in the back, hoping to not get a class so that we could just ride all day.
snowboard instructor = free season pass
Oh, and stealing the ski instructors lunches was the best part.
Damn, you lucked out. The mountain I worked at had school groups or church groups or whatnot all the time. The season I worked as an instructed sucked - never any free time to ride. We always got stuck with a group of unathletic x-games wannebes. I hated instructing! And when we didn't have lessons we'd get roped into doing clinics or some other BS. You had to kiss ass to get freetime to ride. They didn't give us season passes either. You had to check in at ski school and if you'd been "good" all week you might get a ticket without hassle. And since we got lift access they somehow got away with paying like $3.25/hr while in lessons and the rest of the time you didn't get paid!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mykozo
:lol:Quote:
Oh, and stealing the ski instructors lunches was the best part.
That happened where we worked too - nobody's lunch was safe. Though I always thought the best part was making out with the hot ski instructor chicks.
We had none of those. All the snowboard instructors were guys, and there were a few ski instructor women, but they were all relatively old compared to us, and by no means hot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooting Love
damn, what a rip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mykozo
Yeah, seriously.
Oh, shooting love, what mountain were you at. I did one season at Liberty in PA and one at Sunlight in Glenwood Springs, CO.
Just got the word that I'm booked late tonight. Somebody fucking shoot me, I'm too tired to do it myself.
I used to work at a group home, staying overnight to make sure the kids didnt try to escape the house, on rare occasions if my teammate(there were always 2 of us in case we needed to seperate the kids) had his tv set up so that the kids absolutely could not get out of their rooms, id take a short nap on the floor. this turned out not to be great for my back, but there were never any troubles, since our kids were just low level troublemakers. if i were in the houses with repeat the violent offenders, my eyes would never have blinked.
George Costanza.
What would it take to meet this man?Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
At my old job there wasn't that much design work. Any of the work was in-house so I'd just slap their logo on it and send it out. So whenever things got slow later in the day I'd usually be really tired from going out the night before. I managed to find a way to prop myself up to look like I was working (my hand was on my mouse). I also captured video of myself from the desktop doing generic work on the computer and ran it on the screen so it actually looked like I was working.
Fell asleep for like 2 hours a day for almost an entire week and the designer next to me had no idea. Whenever she was gone away I would change her desktop to pictures of people in the office giving the thumbs up. She suspected me on that one, but had no proof.
I've fallen asleep just about everywhere, though it's hard to get much of it done in work. That's not to say I've never done it before though.
I can not sleep at work. I have to know what's happening with 20-35 emloyees at any given time during my 12-18 hour shift. That's fine because I have fresh coffee at my disposal. The downside is that when I'm finally off my mind will not allow me to simply sit down and relax. I usually have to drink or at least be social.
I used to fall asleep occasionally when I had a job verifying telemarketer calls (yeah). Amazingly, pretty much everybody else did, too.
I was a cashier, so not much room to fall asleep on the job. Dozed off on a lunch break but there are always at least 2 people on break with you, so they woke me up in time.
Never have slept at work. The closes thing I did was doze off while tutoring one of kids in reading, at my old job. The kid just poked me in the arm and asked me if I was ok. |-)
When I used to work in a hotel there were many times when I had to work a 12-14 hour shift, get 4-5 hours off then come right back for another 8-14 hours. When I had to do those I would often just go take one of the rooms and sleep in them for a few hours between shifts.
last week, I could only sleep for about 3 hours a night for some reason, so I fell asleep at work while on the toilet. I fell asleep before I began shitting, woke up, noticed I'd been in there for 20 minutes so i hurried out. I didn't even get to do the poo :(
No freakin' way! I worked many seasons at Ski Roundtop - Liberty's sister area just up Rt15 outside of Dillsburg. I was at Liberty frequently enough as well. Back in 96-99 we used to be down there a lot for contests. Damn I wish I could remember some of the guys names who worked there. There was that one dude with dread locks.. oh wait that could be any one of a dozen snowboarders...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mykozo
I was also at Solitude in UT for a season, but failed my urinalysis so was quickly unemployed, but manage lift access throughout the season thanks to a new $5000 credit card. ..smart real smart -though it was entirley worth it as the Wasatch Mnts were the time of my life!
And really I have to agree about the instructors and admit my exageration. Most of the ski instructors at Roundtop were much older and definately not interested in roughneck snowboarders. The lift attendants were where its at!
His name is Mark Gagnier. I went to the same high school as him, and I know his brother and sisters real well. I got to know one of his sisters really well. It's a small world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooting Love
You may also remember Scotty Clark, maybe? Good rider, and an old buddy of mine.
IBTN, and the mountain staff in Colorado was much hotter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooting Love
wow no one noticed this? :lol: Funniest shit i heard all day!Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
Back in the days of GameFan, when I first started, they were still of the mindset that at deadline, everybody on the staff (writing and layout wise) should be at the office "just in case," even if you had everything you were supposed to do done. So, there were a couple weekends where I ended up staying at the office for long enough that I had to get some sleep there.
The good thing is that busy shifts tend to go by faster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hubbitron
That is sort of where I'm at now. Our house does mucho political work, and the rebuttal ads and the such can be last second, so noone leaves until our clients tell us they are going home too.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
I've slept at work a few times during the winter when the snow storms roll in. It sucks.
I get really, really sleepy at meetings, although thankfully I haven't napped in one in a long time (different case at my old job).
I never napped in my office. Can't really sleep anyway because anyone who looks inside my office will notice. I could close the door, but that would make people suspicious because I never do that.
Always close your door, from day one, so that it becomes a habbit to hide your promisciousness.
My office is a small room with no window. Keeping the door closed wouldn't be a wise option.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief Silver
I sleep at work, but only on my breaks and lunches. It's weird that I can sleep for exactly 15 minutes on breaks and 30 mins on lunches. Never overslept and am able to get back to work ontime
small world indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mykozo
I do remember the name Scotty Clark, and Mark too, I think, but I've met so many people between now and then its hard to form an image in my mind.
I can oh so clearly remember those weird green jackets the Liberty crew wore for a few seasons!
The jackets were atrocious. They were nice jackets, but they were fucking purple and aqua, awful.