Ever Taken A Nap At Work?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68488416

 

[davebro3]

Old joke - In future planes will be flown by a single pilot & a dog. The dog is there to bite the pilot if he touches anything, the pilot is there to feed the dog. 🤣

[barry1010]

There is nothing worse for me when I'm driving than a passenger next to me fast asleep.  

I have fallen asleep at times when I shouldn't - including at work.  Never when I'm in charge of a car or machinery though

[davebro3]

Presuming the plane was on auto pilot what would cause it to veer off course?

[drmorgans]

 

The dog switched off the auto pilot and fancied doing a bit of aerobatics?

 

[bednobs]

when i was pregnant, i used to go for an afternoon nap in the prayer room nearly every day

[douglas9401]

Easier to understand if it had been a Boring 747.

[andy-hughes]

I regularly used to nap at work.

Trying to balance a freelance music journalism career with a full-time job was never easy, many many late nights either driving back from gigs, or sitting up typing away to meet deadlines for reviews and features.

So I was an expert at the 'power nap' in the toilets.

Try it - if you can sleep in a cubicle, you are, like me, a gifted sleeper.

There is bright light, nothing to lean on, an uncomfy seat, a tendency to slip forward off the seat once you nod off, and people constantly comming in and out to use the facilities for their proper purpose.

Lunchtime was a different matter - if you can sleep in an open plan office with phones ringing and people talking and moving about, and just your chair to sit and relax in, no problem.

That was a shoe-in for me, and I could snatch twenty or thirty minutes any lunch break.

The occasional tea break could be spent lying on the floor of an empty office, but I needed to set my phone alarm, once I'm gone, I'm gone!

[davebro3]

I never slept at work even when I did night shifts & there wasn't much going on. And I can't sleep when travelling - as driver or passenger!

[davebro3]

"shoo-in" btw

[retrocop]

Not on the job. Bit difficult on a BMW K100 1000cc.☺

[DTCwordfan]

I once fell sound asleep at my desk in Brussels with my boss and his boss, the head of the business unit, having a debate in my office. Admittedly, I was suffering from a nasty cold, the comment coming, "If you aren't feeling great, we think you should head home and to bed...." Embarrassing that this was!

[david small]

I once took a small mattress into my office for a kip during a night shift.

[-SharonA-]

In one of my jobs, newly pregnant come tea break time I thought I'd put my head down for the 15 minutes. Next thing, I'm being woken up at 5pm home time.

[237SJ]

It's normal for one pilot to go to sleep on long haul flights (controlled rest) but not on short haul flights.  The captain shouldn't have done that. The airline needs to look into crew fatigue.