falling asleep during meetings at work

[raleighnut]

"Basically" sets me nodding off every time I hear it

 

[EltonFrog]

About 26 years ago I got a job as a sales rep, selling acoustic tiles. On my first day I was on a training session in a training room with the most boring trainer in the world. It did not matter that these tiles were the best in the world, I was not feeling the love. I kept nodding off, it didn't matter what I did to keep awake, I drank coffee, I asked questions, I cracked gags, windows were opened, I went to the loo. I quickly realised that I was about to start a job selling the most boring product in the world.

When I went home at the end of the day, I typed my resignation letter drove back to the office at midnight and posted the letter and the company car keys into the letter box, and got my girl friend to take me home.

Edited for tryping ellors.

 

[screenman]

When I read what some people have to put up with at work, well it makes me happy with what I do.

 

[gavgav]

just had the longest hour of my life,trying to stay awake during a boring work meeting in a hot stuffy room!!kept nodding off,even biting my lip and poking myself with a pen didnt help.

You don't work in the NHS by any chance do you?! I've lost count of the number of pointless meetings I've had to attend and felt like this!

 

[JoeyB]

I've been in a few NHS meetings in the past, fortunately (or unfortunately) I was chairing the meetings so had enough going on to keep me awake....just.

 

[biggs682]

just had the longest hour of my life,trying to stay awake during a boring work meeting in a hot stuffy room!!kept nodding off,even biting my lip and poking myself with a pen didnt help.

at least you admitted it , some meetings are that boring and boy i have been close many a time

 

[Leaway2]

Just you falling asleep? If so, it might not be the room all the meeting, but you.

I had a snoring problem, and after 3 sleep tests and a questionaire, they ruled out sleep apnea. But I had the snoring surgery, and suddenly I stopped falling asleep during meetings so I must have had sleep apnea, and was not getting a good nights sleep.

Or maybe they just don't wake you up now as you have stopped snoring.
I had the surgery about 10 years ago. I snore just as badly now as before the op.

 

[gary r]

You don't work in the NHS by any chance do you?! I've lost count of the number of pointless meetings I've had to attend and felt like this!

No, Heathrow Airport

 

[Fnaar]

Just say "Yes. Going forward" every 10 minutes. Then you can safely nod off inbetweentimes. Nobody will be any the wiser, and it will make bugger all difference. This is the key to success at work.

 

[Ganymede]

Just say "Yes. Going forward" every 10 minutes. Then you can safely nod off inbetweentimes. Nobody will be any the wiser, and it will make bugger all difference. This is the key to success at work.

I once fell asleep on stage. I'm not proud. Hot Wednesday afternoon matinee in Eastbourne during a long droning speech, me sat on the sofa upstage right with a big hot light beating down on the back of my head, after 4 weeks of rehearsing all day and playing every evening. I didn't miss my cue though - had to leap up and shout something. It being Eastbourne I probably woke some of the audience up at that point too....

 

[Sara_H]

Ha ha, I regularly deliver training sessions to various departments in the hospital as part of the mandatory training days that everyone as to have annually. A few months ago one of my old colleagues who I'm facebook friends with grumbled on facebook about struggling to keep her eyes open during the day.
I replied "Oi! I am here you know!" at which point she hurriedly commented that it was the moving and handling session that had failed to keep her awake, not my scintillating session!

 

[Crackle]

Meetings are normally short enough to survive. Courses are far worse, especially the ones were you go from stuffy hotel room to stuffy course room. Courses are hell.

 

[gavgav]

Ha ha, I regularly deliver training sessions to various departments in the hospital as part of the mandatory training days that everyone as to have annually. A few months ago one of my old colleagues who I'm facebook friends with grumbled on facebook about struggling to keep her eyes open during the day.
I replied "Oi! I am here you know!" at which point she hurriedly commented that it was the moving and handling session that had failed to keep her awake, not my scintillating session!

Mandatory training!!!!! The bane of my life. Otherwise known as a waste of an afternoon in the NHS! Like for example an office based worker like me having to do infection control, about sharps, etc

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Mandatory training!!!!! The bane of my life. Otherwise known as a waste of an afternoon in the NHS! Like for example an office based worker like me having to do infection control, about sharps, etc

There was no chance of falling asleep with some of the mandatory training I have had in one of my jobs...
How to use a fire extinguisher - all staff had mandatory training for it with real fires (OK controlled conditions) but trust me, you didn't fall asleep in that training session (actually great fun!).

 

[Sara_H]

Mandatory training!!!!! The bane of my life. Otherwise known as a waste of an afternoon in the NHS! Like for example an office based worker like me having to do infection control, about sharps, etc

I tailor mine to the individual department, it's REALLY interesting, every time!