falling asleep during meetings at work

[palinurus]

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.

Yeah. I can keep sort of alert for 30 minutes, then the rest of the day is just trying to keep awake. Also for some reason which I don't understand I invariably generate unusual quantities of bottom gas, which I have to keep in. It's agony. It doesn't happen in the office- it's a course thing.

Sometimes, mostimes even, the trainers stick in some role-play. If that happens it takes me three months to recover after.

Hell indeed.

At least I get to enjoy filling in the feedback form after.

 

[gavgav]

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!).

That sounds great fun!! Our fire training consists of death by PowerPoint and spotting the 10 hazards on the SAME photo each year

 

[Glow worm]

Most of the 'meetings' at our place are conference calls - I spent most of the last one birdwatching from my kitchen window, just chipping in every now and then. A lot of these calls are remarkably similar to this in fact......

 

[Fab Foodie]

We have very few real meetings .... We have Conference Calls' as the alternative to work. As I often have to dial-in from home/ car/ hotel/ airport it's bloody hard to stay focused on the subject. I have on occasions just wandered off and rejoined the call, if anyone missed you you can put it down to connection problems.
Training from by a trainer one thing, I yearn for that, training by 'online course' or 'learning module' is another level if hell altogether ..... They can fackemselves.

 

[Sara_H]

We have very few real meetings .... We have Conference Calls' as the alternative to work. As I often have to dial-in from home/ car/ hotel/ airport it's bloody hard to stay focused on the subject. I have on occasions just wandered off and rejoined the call, if anyone missed you you can put it down to connection problems.
Training from by a trainer one thing, I yearn for that, training by 'online course' or 'learning module' is another level if hell altogether ..... They can fackemselves.

A couple of years ago my OH and a couple of colleagues were doing a uni course that involved online study days, they were online in a virtual learning environment, like a chat room. One of the colleagues would always mysteriously lose connection between 2.55pm and 3.25pm. On anther occasion a load of gobblydygook appeared on the screen from said colleague, it turned out kid had joined in whilst Mum was preparing kids lunch!

 

[Lance Jack]

Just completed three days of annual training/testing. Sat in a lecture the first day, nice comfy chair, and could feel myself getting all warm, the eye lids taking longer to open after each blink, then after one of these long blinks I opened my eyes to see the boss looking at me. Made me feel better when somebody more senior to me fell asleep and the person next to him was told to wake him up.

 

[tyred]

And there was me thinking that meetings and training courses were giving hard-worked employees well-earned chance to catch up on some sleep.

You learn something new everyday

 

[Sara_H]

And there was me thinking that meetings and training courses were giving hard-worked employees well-earned chance to catch up on some sleep.

You learn something new everyday

When I was clinically based I used to be very jelous of people who went to meetings because they got to sit down and discuss important and interesting matters.
Now I'm in a job that involves copious amounts of meetings I find myself wistfully remembering what it was like to be run off my feet for 12 hours a day and not have to go to any bloody meetings!

 

[cyberknight]

Pay attention, you might learn something ................

 

[Brains]

I someone that is involved in running two week long training sessions a year, I feel for you all.

My lot, who fly in from all over the world, so god knows what time their body clock thinks it is, then have to endure around 16 hours a day for 5 days back to back of lectures, practicals, visits and corporate entertaining.
Last year we had it filmed. The lectures alone, with all the breaks edited out came to 35 hours and that excludes the practicals, visits and corporate entertaining

So far in 5 years years I've been involved we have had:

• One guy fall asleep whist the CEO was speaking
• More 'morning after the night before' stories than you can possibly imagine
• One guy fired on the spot for something so discussing it made the trade press
• Two A&E's caused by alcohol poising (different years)
• A diabetic coma
  
• Three broken bones (different years)
• Several 'sent home' early
• And no doubt many other stories I've forgotten and a lot more I'll never be told (that we sometimes find out a year or two later)

By Thursday we see the real hard core, who know what they are doing, and realised the warning of this being a marathon and not a sprint was true.
It's funny that the team (all over 50) who run it, are all standing at the end, the 20 somethings that cant take the pace

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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 not matter that the these tiles where the best in the world, I was not feeling the love. I kept nodding off, 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 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.

That was just the entrance test to weed the idiots out and you failed, it was the best job EVER in the history if the Universe!!

[QUOTE 3078587, member: 259"]I went to a meeting once. Never again![/QUOTE]

A young kid, I used to think that meetings were where you got served big plates of meat, and I always wanted to go to one!!

 

[Sara_H]

Currently in a meeting - still awake!

 

[palinurus]

• One guy fired on the spot for something so discussing it made the trade press

I'm trying to think of something that's disgusting but not so disgusting (had the same autocorrect issue right there) that it makes the trade press.

Or are you training journalists?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Currently in a meeting - still awake!

But not paying attention.

 

[Tin Pot]

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.

Michael Biehn had it right with a razor under the desk for cutting.