I am seasonally laid off so I spend a lot of time on my projects that there is no end too. Sometimes I have trouble sleeping so I will tinker in the garage all night. At around 7 a.m. I decided I should get the oil changed on my honfa big red muv before going to sleep for a bit. I usually am good at remembering what wrenches I need for my stuff so I grabbed what I thought I needed and crawled underneath. Well I grabbed the wrong wrenches and also forgot my drain pan. laying there for a moment thinking about crawling out to grab the right wrenches and pan I just said F it and took a nap. Woke up about an hour later. Nice little concrete nap.
falling asleep on the job
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coljar
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Yeah, I've done that before when I was younger, but instead of wrenches, there would be an overturned beer laying there when I woke up.
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2004.5cumminsman
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I have spent many of nights under the a 10R in the field.....
I am seasonally laid off as well. Usually in the winters and go back about April
That has happened to me a time or two. Waking up
thinking where did that come from? 
Yeah, I've done that before when I was younger, but instead of wrenches, there would be an overturned beer laying there when I woke up.
That has happened to me a time or two. Waking up
thinking where did that come from? BigNuge
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I fell asleep under a small industrial boiler (I was a field tech at the time) on a really long/cold day of fixing boilers. Got to my 6th call of the day, customer complained about a combustion smell...crawled under the boiler to check for any leaks. Found no leaks, but the floor was so warm....woke up an hour later...lol
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Fell asleep under my '59 once, about 1AM, cleaning the underside of the shell off or painting it or something. Laying on the creeper, had one of those halogen work lights, so a bit of warmth… I think I was out for the better part of an hour. It's real quiet out in the shop...
Shadowdog500
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I'm a night owl myself, and have dozed off In the shop a few times.
Chris
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jsaw
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In my younger days late at night laying on a creeper underneath something, couldn't stay awake, would fall asleep. After waking up, went in the house and went to bed. Toss and turn couldnt get to sleep. That happened quite a few times.
YeCats
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First post for me. This tread reminded me of story I read about Dale Earnhardt. It said, when he was 15, he'd fall asleep with wrenches in hand, just about every night. I believe that has to do with passion,,, or just maybe the shop is a better place to sleep. 
Nice to belong to this fine site, hope I'm able to contribute.
Nice to belong to this fine site, hope I'm able to contribute.
Shadowdog500
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First post for me. This tread reminded me of story I read about Dale Earnhardt. It said, when he was 15, he'd fall asleep with wrenches in hand, just about every night. I believe that has to do with passion,,, or just maybe the shop is a better place to sleep.
Nice to belong to this fine site, hope I'm able to contribute.
Welcome to the forum!!!
When I was in college I used to sleep with books all over the bed. I kept that bad habit up until I got married.
When I was into drag racing we would be out in the shop all night on weekends until we noticed that the sun was coming up, then we would all hit the diner for breakfast befor going home to crash. That ended real quick when people started getting married and having kids.
Chris
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PelicanPines
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You don't want to fall asleep in my driveway in the spring or summer... we have these HUGE things that look like ants the size of your pinky with bright red hair all over their body. They will bite you and you will want to cut the body part off. Pretty sure they are called COW KILLERS -wiki link provided-
ilikedirt
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My line of work is super-seasonal. I'm pulling my hair out in the spring time working 12-14 hour days. Winter time I stay up till 1-3am doing whatever (usually working on the truck) and sleep in till....whenever I get up.
When i was a rookie and working overnights and a side jig - I would wake up with my foot on the brake sound asleep at a stop sign or stop light, even once waiting on a train to pass. Realized I was going to kill myself or someone else and quit the side job.
600SL
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I fell asleep under a car one time. My supervisor came up and woke me. He advised me I was doing it wrong. First of all the car was too high. Second of all I should have tied my hands to the drive shaft with wiper rags. etc.
Heavymetalmechanic
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That wasp link makes me glad to live with the cold.
I have fallen asleep in my garage on a creeper during a warm Saturday afternoon in June.
I may also be guilty of "falling" asleep on a particularly rough Friday morning when 19 and living with my buddy's band... Smashed my head into the underside of a backhoe when my coworker woke me up.
I have fallen asleep in my garage on a creeper during a warm Saturday afternoon in June.
I may also be guilty of "falling" asleep on a particularly rough Friday morning when 19 and living with my buddy's band... Smashed my head into the underside of a backhoe when my coworker woke me up.
Throbbin Rods
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Beat me to it. Worked in a Ford Dealership in 1973. We were all young and partied hard. No lifts so everything was jackstands. I crawled under a car with a bad hangover and tied my hands to the driveshaft - got an hour or so of good sleep and back to work.
bczygan
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When I was young and working as a potman (No, not the weed. A potman moves molten metal around), I fell asleep on the job.
One floor below the main factory floor is a shaker, which is a conveyor that shakes to move scrap metal from the zinc diecast machines, back into the remelt furnace, which is also one floor down.
There is a sluice down there, with water from the parts, flowing through it. A little 4" concrete curb forms the sluice.
There is a spot down there, where you are hidden from supervisors above, if you sit with your **** on that little curb.
But it is near the remelt furnace, and scrap metal, some of it with pockets of water still in it, fall into the furnace from the shaker. When water hits the molten metal, bits of metal fly all over in little explosions.
Sometimes I would go down there for a rest break and would fall asleep sitting up on that curb.
I would wake up with my face shield, shirt and pants covered with little bits of metal.
Fun times!
Bill
One floor below the main factory floor is a shaker, which is a conveyor that shakes to move scrap metal from the zinc diecast machines, back into the remelt furnace, which is also one floor down.
There is a sluice down there, with water from the parts, flowing through it. A little 4" concrete curb forms the sluice.
There is a spot down there, where you are hidden from supervisors above, if you sit with your **** on that little curb.
But it is near the remelt furnace, and scrap metal, some of it with pockets of water still in it, fall into the furnace from the shaker. When water hits the molten metal, bits of metal fly all over in little explosions.
Sometimes I would go down there for a rest break and would fall asleep sitting up on that curb.
I would wake up with my face shield, shirt and pants covered with little bits of metal.
Fun times!
Bill
Dancing Bear
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I work in an office at a hospital, long shifts usually 12-14 hours from 6am up to 7 or 8pm most nights. When you walk into the office, my office is first, then a hallway that leads back to the manager's offices. After 5pm on the weekdays, I'm the only one in here and it gets QUIET. I've fallen asleep at the desk, on the phone, even on the floor of the manager's office once 
jkwilson
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On the creeper late at night trying to figure out how to get something apart...suddenly it's an hour and a half later. Easy to do.
When I was much younger I was in the process of installing a transmission and needed an adapter to make it work. I needed to test fit everything so I could get it ordered. Buddies stopped by with beer and plans changed. Woke up feeling rough the next day, but I needed to get that ****** measured so I could get the driveshaft and the adapter ordered. That cold, cold concrete floor felt so good I slept for three hours!
When I was much younger I was in the process of installing a transmission and needed an adapter to make it work. I needed to test fit everything so I could get it ordered. Buddies stopped by with beer and plans changed. Woke up feeling rough the next day, but I needed to get that ****** measured so I could get the driveshaft and the adapter ordered. That cold, cold concrete floor felt so good I slept for three hours!
sleeping on the job, you have just located your "expert" on this. lol
When I had to do certain tasks at work, I would sleep about oh 3 hours at work a day. Always had a pillow with me. We were working 11 or 12 hours, sometimes 15 a day 7 days a week. Different part of job was to "babysit" other people. Master sleeper. Sit in truck, safety glass/sun glasses on clip board out and sleep with a pen in my hand, few times I fell asleep with an open bottle of water. As I type all this stuff out I am currently waiting on paperwork/ supplies. I have been surfing the internet all week and have done about 1 hour worth of work.
When I had to do certain tasks at work, I would sleep about oh 3 hours at work a day. Always had a pillow with me. We were working 11 or 12 hours, sometimes 15 a day 7 days a week. Different part of job was to "babysit" other people. Master sleeper. Sit in truck, safety glass/sun glasses on clip board out and sleep with a pen in my hand, few times I fell asleep with an open bottle of water. As I type all this stuff out I am currently waiting on paperwork/ supplies. I have been surfing the internet all week and have done about 1 hour worth of work.
killahog
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I worked third shift on day and when I got home I started scraping paint off the front porch, The sun came up and I ended up falling asleep on the porch floor. When I woke up and decided to go inside I noticed the mailman had come by and deliverd the mail right beside me. I cant help wondering what he thought about a guy sleeping on a porch when the couch was just 30 feet away.
Well at least it was beer so you probably slept on your back. If it was hard booze, you would have been sleeping on your face. One of the many wake up calls for me to not drink heavy **** was waking up face down in my garage with a broken bottle lying next to me. At least I didn't break anything else that night.
theoldwizard1
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I used to work on computer servers (long before they were called "server" and they were the size of 2 side-by-side Sub Zero refrigerators). I had bad insomnia and would get up ad work for 3-4 hours "remotely" (from my basement). I usually grabbed another couple of hours after 5AM. We had "flex time", so I typically didn't get in until after 9.
Frequently, I would grab a nap in the car at lunch time, but I know I fell asleep more than once in a long boring meeting !
Frequently, I would grab a nap in the car at lunch time, but I know I fell asleep more than once in a long boring meeting !
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sprchrgd1
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I want to sleep right now. Messed around in the garage til 4:30 this morning. Way too many Ten High and Cokes last night. I slept til noon today. Didn't have to be at work til 1:00. Now I want sleep!
Hpozzuoli
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When I worked in corporate America I would seriously sleep 4-5hrs out of an 8hr shift. I could stare at a blank monitor and fall asleep in seconds. If I had no actual work and was expected to sit there I couldn't help but to fall asleep. Never intentionaly.
I used to work in Boston and had to move my car every two hrs from free parking spots or metered spots. Never failed I would fall asleep on one leg of that journey. I could go on about some great stories about working in Boston and being a crazy 20 something at the time.
Now that I work 100% for myself I hussle all day and night sometimes. I don't need to be involved and could technically be retired at 37, but I love my businesses and I love my trade so I keep at it.
I used to work in Boston and had to move my car every two hrs from free parking spots or metered spots. Never failed I would fall asleep on one leg of that journey. I could go on about some great stories about working in Boston and being a crazy 20 something at the time.
Now that I work 100% for myself I hussle all day and night sometimes. I don't need to be involved and could technically be retired at 37, but I love my businesses and I love my trade so I keep at it.
saceone
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fally asleep under something is fine
waking up in a panic and knocking yourself right back to sleep... not so much
waking up in a panic and knocking yourself right back to sleep... not so much
Lx460
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Fishplate
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Leonard? Is that you?
rlitman
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Oh heck no. I did NOT just read that.
Time to nuke them from space!
http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/cowkiller.shtml
"This handsome insect does make a sound (especially when stepped on) but the squeaks of the cow killer ant would hardly be heard over the painful screams, if the person stepping on the wasp was barefoot."
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Screaming "ants". WTF?
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Lassen Forge
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Early in my present job we had to go to this safety class for people who worked around and serviced pesticide equipment. There must have been about 50 of us in this class, they held it in this nice, dim, warm auditorium with comfortable chairs, the guy gets up and in a nasally, cleft-palate monotone starts reading (make that droning) a half dozen pesticide labels, line for line, nice even cadence...
I guess we were about halfway thru it (no one knows) when there was this huge bang, like an explosion... with 3 exceptions (the 2 instructors and one FNG) the entire class was snoozing. (I think I made it through one and a half... )
It was the last time he gave that class again, and from then on it was held in a over-refrigerated portable building with hard plastic chairs.
I guess we were about halfway thru it (no one knows) when there was this huge bang, like an explosion... with 3 exceptions (the 2 instructors and one FNG) the entire class was snoozing. (I think I made it through one and a half... )
It was the last time he gave that class again, and from then on it was held in a over-refrigerated portable building with hard plastic chairs.
Jinks
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As a young guy workin' for the phone phactory I'd get a job served from aerial cable. That meant 25/30 feet up a pole on hooks. If I had to call dispatch/records/the central office for help/information I could be up that pole for an hour or two. Nothing was fast...... I'd safety off over the cable span, slide the belt under my ****, & back my hooks down till I was sittin' in a sling. That put my head about even with the cable span, & I could cradle my test set on my shoulder & rest my head on my arms folded on the span. I'd snooze till someone picked up on the other end. Actually a pretty restful way to nap.
sprchrgd1
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Update:
I just actually took an hour nap in the bosses office. He has a couch and is not here today.
I just actually took an hour nap in the bosses office. He has a couch and is not here today.
Guaranteed nobody will understand this one but when you green saw concrete, you will be there all night and even longer depending on weather. I used to run an old cimline spansaw to saw mainline concrete (they maybe made forty of those old saws). You would pull ahead to the next joint, line it up and turn your water on drop in and hit the boom to start sawing the joint. Usually took a little over a minute to saw a joint while you waited. I took many one minute naps. When the blade hit the end, the engine would rev up a little bit and wake me up to move to the next joint.
Shadowdog500
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Obviously a government employee...
Or a paid fireman! A crew sleeps there every night.
Chris
59chief
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I was once working in a hospital on a piece of equipment up in the ceiling. To get access to it. Had to climb up on an HVAC duct about three feet wide. It was dark, quiet, and the warm duct felt just too good.... I woke up about an hour and a half later, climbed down the ladder and went to lunch!!
acer66
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in my younger days I feel asleep working on a piece in a bench vise with a handfile.
LS6 Tommy
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Spent many a night sleeping under the GT1 car. The race shop was small and cramped with stuff, so under the car was the only place big enough to stretch out. If I was smart, I would have slept sitting in the car...
Tommy
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Farmall 1066
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Farming is all about running like hell, when weather permits, and machinery hangs together.
Had about 100 acres of milo left, with rain/ice coming. Ran like a madman for 28 hours straight, getting it all done. Got combine back in the shed, and went into town to pick up friend who sneaked a 110k pound truckload into the elevator for me, in the middle of the night.
Got back home around 3am, pulled my pickup in the shop...we both woke up in it around noon the next day, oblivious to the blizzard that had come while we were sleeping.
Slept/napped in about every piece of machinery I can think of, over the years. Hayfields, across seat of pickup, mid afternoons, while waiting on more fuel/seed/chemicals.
Sleep when/where you can.
Had about 100 acres of milo left, with rain/ice coming. Ran like a madman for 28 hours straight, getting it all done. Got combine back in the shed, and went into town to pick up friend who sneaked a 110k pound truckload into the elevator for me, in the middle of the night.
Got back home around 3am, pulled my pickup in the shop...we both woke up in it around noon the next day, oblivious to the blizzard that had come while we were sleeping.
Slept/napped in about every piece of machinery I can think of, over the years. Hayfields, across seat of pickup, mid afternoons, while waiting on more fuel/seed/chemicals.
Sleep when/where you can.