Falling asleep in meetings

[Cloo]

I have definitely jerked my head forwards suddenly waking in meetings on occasion I was kind of glad that recently a colleague and I saw another team member also nodding off in a meeting but I had total sympathy for him. I'm not sure whether I've been spotted or not - I suspect I have

 

[Argonia]

The poll percentages add up to 250 per cent

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I used to fall asleep a lot and thought nobody noticed but everybody did. However I did once get asked a question while asleep, woke up, gave a full answer and even asked a follow up question, which shows you how much attention you actually needed to pay.

Nowadays my meetings are generally telecons so I can just move the window somewhere out of the way and do something else. I never have my camera on so I’ve been known to go out for a fag or to get coffee - on the very rare occasions somebody asks you something while you’re away you can always say “oh sorry someone came to my desk with an urgent question”. I have also heard people say “sorry I wasn’t listening could you repeat that?” when asked something.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Yep, done it a lot, hell of a lot. But El Jugs had a very short lived career in advertising as a graduate and once woke up in an empty boardroom - fell asleep in a meeting and not even noticed that everyone had left.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I've done it but not for many years... I fell asleep at my desk briefly last year though

 

[heinous seamus]

Never done but can't blame anyone who has - meetings are a dreadful, boring waste of time (mostly).

 

[ska invita]

 

[ska invita]

 

[Cloo]

The poll percentages add up to 250 per cent

Called multiple voting options dude

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I briefly fell asleep at a gig once.

I was mixing it

 

[Yossarian]

I briefly fell asleep at a gig once.

I was mixing it

Did Coldplay complain?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Did Coldplay complain?

 

[Argonia]

Called multiple voting options dude

Oh ok dudette

 

[bellaozzydog]

The job i’m Currently in means three meetings a day. Two of them in a conference room rigged up with shit hot video conferencing video which is always on

I sit in the same seat under a screen on the wall. The screen shows me magnified in real time yawning scratching my head and picking my nose

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Yep, done it a lot, hell of a lot. But El Jugs had a very short lived career in advertising as a graduate and once woke up in an empty boardroom - fell asleep in a meeting and not even noticed that everyone had left.

This pretty much wins the Gold Pillow Award. Not sure how anyone could top that.

 

[MickiQ]

I've started to nod off in meetings more time than I can count, my team had a code of honour that if any of us started to slip whoever was next to them would give them a gentle prod.
However I have been in meetings where I have wished for the sweet release of death to escape them never mind nodding off.

 

[neonwilderness]

The internal meetings at my current place are generally quite concise so aren’t usually too bad.

Some of the visiting reps don’t know when to stop talking though and their meetings can often be death by PowerPoint and quite a struggle. These days I make sure I have excuse to go out somewhere ready so I can escape if needed.

 

[Looby]

I can’t do it, I’m a snorer. I used to fall asleep at uni all the time (first degree attempt) but the most embarrassing time was in a small seminar group.

Another student on my course falls asleep a lot and I find it spectacularly rude. The first time I noticed, she’d sat right at the front which is her first mistake and was out for a good 15 minutes. When she woke up the lecturer made a comment about it and she said it was because the lecture was so boring.

She apparently fell asleep in a meeting recently too.

I was in systems training today and nearly dozed off. I’m finishing an assignment tonight so I’m going to need to take shitloads of sugar with me for day two.

One of my old managers used to fall asleep at his desk after lunch almost every day. He’d eat an enormous amount of shit and fatty food then have a nap. We’d take it in turns to call his extension to wake him up. [emoji1]

 

[Looby]

I used to fall asleep a lot and thought nobody noticed but everybody did. However I did once get asked a question while asleep, woke up, gave a full answer and even asked a follow up question, which shows you how much attention you actually needed to pay.

Nowadays my meetings are generally telecons so I can just move the window somewhere out of the way and do something else. I never have my camera on so I’ve been known to go out for a fag or to get coffee - on the very rare occasions somebody asks you something while you’re away you can always say “oh sorry someone came to my desk with an urgent question”. I have also heard people say “sorry I wasn’t listening could you repeat that?” when asked something.

I popped out during a teleconference and forgot my swipe card and was locked out of the room for about 15 minutes until someone let me in. I don’t think anyone noticed.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Nod off quite a lot at work - have those waves of tiredness that feel like you're being dragged under and there is little you can do about it. Hopefully it is only momentary unconsciousness, but nobody has said anything over the years. Recently I was doing a lot of interviewing and I think I nodded off a few times (long boring days is my excuse). I really hope the candidates didn't notice - I was chairing the panel.

Seen plenty of colleagues nod off in meetings over the years too - it must be really common.

 

[ska invita]

I briefly fell asleep at a gig once.

I was mixing it

A friend of the family wrote some lyrics to a mid 90s attempted comeback album of a minor 80s pop musician...I was offered tickets to go and see the gig. No idea why I said yes, not my thing at all, but I guess it was the word FREE that appealed to me, and you never know,might be good. The gig was on a Sunday night, and as it turned out Id been out on the Saturday night and wasn't in the best state on Sunday.

Anyhow, dragged myself to the gig, seats were near the back - and then lo and behold the guy who wrote the lyrics was sitting next to me! I said hi etc, and got ready for the show to start. First track began and I immediately fell asleep and continued to do that head nod thing right through till the show finished, at which point is skulked off

Really embarrassed about that to this day, shouldve stayed home really, but I really wasnt thinking straight (default in the mid 90s tbh)

 

[Edie]

I cannot imagine falling asleep in a meeting. I can’t fall asleep on trains or aeroplanes or in the park or on a beach when I want to. I can’t let my guard down like that!

 

[equationgirl]

I cannot imagine falling asleep in a meeting. I can’t fall asleep on trains or aeroplanes or in the park or on a beach when I want to. I can’t let my guard down like that!

It stayers off normally fir me but after twenty minutes or so I get bored and can feel my eyelids getting heavy, I fight it but then my head dips and wakes me.

When the meeting is over I am wide awake.

 

[8115]

I cannot imagine falling asleep in a meeting. I can’t fall asleep on trains or aeroplanes or in the park or on a beach when I want to. I can’t let my guard down like that!

I can't even fall asleep in bed.

 

[Edie]

I can't even fall asleep in bed.

 

[fucthest8]

I noticed my colleague's head nodding once in a meeting ... afterwards he said to me "I was just sitting there thinking "God this is dull. Hope it doesn't go on too long. Hang on, why is it dark? Oh shit ..."

 

[MrSki]

Not quite on thread but I pulled myself out of bed & showered after a heavy few days. I can remember sitting down about 8am to put my boots on to go to work & the next thing I know it is 3.30pm. I just phoned up & told the truth. I doubted they believed me but heyho!
I think people with different lifestyles can't comprehend falling asleep at 8am and not waking up for 7 1/2 hours. God I wish I could sleep like that normally.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I sleep better when I'm not supposed to be sleeping than when I am.

 

[Cloo]

I've just taken on a lot more responsibilities at work due to covering my manager covering mat leave... until now, I'd always had a fair few longeurs when waiting on other people to do stuff and having nothing urgent to do, so I'd spend it doing reading and research, but that can be quite soporific. I'm actually enjoying being busier now because I feel far more awake all day and don't get any of the 'dragged under' tiredness as farmerbarleymow describes it so well, which I tended to get a few times a week. Having to be more on my toes keeps me much more enervated.

 

[NoXion]

There have been times when I've seriously needed something stronger than coffee or energy drinks to keep me awake at work. If only amphetamines weren't so expensive.