If I’m running the project, that person is off the job immediately and I’m calling the office for a replacement.
If I’m not in charge, I wake they’re sorry ass up and take them to the guy running the project.
This is an extremely severe infraction of the rules, one that has customers calling the office and complaining while we are still on site.
I have a picture my Dad’s co-workers took of him napping at work, with the clock in the background clearly showing it was 3:05 pm and thus break time. Dad worked a full-time engineering job, delivered papers before starting his day job, officiated high school and junior college basketball games at night, and worked the betting window at the local horse track many weekends. He needed that 10 minute afternoon nap.
My mom also worked a full-time day job, and retouched* photos nights and weekends. They both did not like down time, and still don’t. After divorcing, both found second partners who are just as on the go as they are. I, on the other hand, know how to relax.
to the OP: I had a co-worker who fell asleep during our meeting. We made her the regular scribe, so she stayed awake to take notes. It mostly worked.
At a previous job, a co-worker would fall asleep during meetings and we would all carefully not wake him because he asked stupid questions. Keep sleeping, Dennis, and we’ll all get out of the meeting on time.
If they’re like a airline pilot or bus driver or something like that I’d cut them some slack and let them rest because those jobs are taxing on the mind and body, so power-naps are important.
Oh yeah, and they could also be sleeping off a massive hangover, so it’s quite important we respect that.
Even in our warehouse it happens; usually someone napping out in the john. My usual form is inform a manager but not always so I went with the last choice.
Am I being paid to supervise?
Are they literally part of my team, not just some B’s we’re a team thing but like my performance depends directly on theirs?
If not I don’t care.
Same as basically any other behavior not seriously detrimental to some other individual.
When I worked as a mechanic for the DOD we had a cleanup day where half the day we were just our own janitors. Always complaints someone didn’t mop enough or help enough on the bathrooms etc etc.
I explained , we are all here cleaning til the end of the day, noones Ill performance puts a higher load on the rest.
Supervisors make nearly double, until they double my pay I am not responsible for anything anyone else does.
Haha, by the end of basic most people have mastered sleeping at attention.
Some have learned to sleep during a road March, you don’t know it until they trip and fall on an obvious “rock or something” ( directly quoted from MRE instructions)
I’m a pilot, so obviously if someone’s asleep in the cockpit I will immediately wake them and possibly submit a report, right? Well, no. I spent the last ~8 years flying night freight. Being two crew and not having any flight attendants there is no way to have “controlled rest” but sleepiness and fatigue are a huge issue and if I saw my colleague having a “snooze in the cruise” I would let them sleep. Why? Because they obviously need it and I’d rather they sleep during a low risk/workload period and be refreshed for the descent and approach than have them micro-napping on short finals. If I’m feeling sleepy as well then I will wake them and one of us will get up for a walk and make some coffee.
Edit: That said, I have expressed concerns to management about a pilot who had more than the usual difficulty staying awake.
Obviously I was joking so that is interesting and unexpected info. Thanks for that.
Yeah I picked up on the irony ;).
Temporary?
The baby died?
Kayaker - eventually the baby sleeps through the night.
There was this guy I worked with that nobody liked. He used to work on his college schoolwork during the day, and then do minimal work work at night - on overtime! He used to fall asleep all the time, and we would take pictures of him, then show him later to tease him. He eventually graduated and left the company. The company actually paid for his education! The bosses never knew. That guy had other issues, too - mainly anger management. He had several reprimands for physical and verbal altercations. We never could understand how he kept his job, frankly.
Back in the day I partied a lot, and had a mind-numbingly dull job. My coworkers used to call me and hang up. I didn’t catch on it was them for the longest time!
At another job, I was falling asleep in meetings. Turns out I had sleep apnea, and got my CPAP and I rarely get sleepy during work anymore.
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Since I live in Japan I would let my coworker sleep because sleeping on the job shows how hard you’ve been working and that you need a rest.
This is fact and not sarcasm.
I used to do this but now our phone system shows a missed call log and it would be obvious what was going on.
IIRC, the action in Basic Training was to tie their shoelaces together 
I’m assuming you mean while they’re on duty, but not actively at the wheel/stick.
But yeah, I think everyone’s had that time when they stayed up too late, just had a kid, partied too hard, or just hasn’t been sleeping well, and put their head in their hands for a little bit to rest their eyes, and woke up 15 (or more) minutes later without meaning to go to sleep. I wouldn’t generally report those people- that’s a normal consequence of having everyone stuck on someone else’s schedule 5 days a week.
Nor would I sweat people whose jobs consist of a cycle of doing something then waiting on something with nothing to do in the interim. I once had a short period as a construction inspector (was actually an intern, but the company had training/company meetings, so I had to go into the field). My job for that week consisted of watching a construction crew pour and finish roads, and watch the concrete lab testing guy do his thing. It was “work” for the first 3 hours or so while we had concrete trucks lined up to pour. After that, we got like one truck every 70 minutes or so, and the workers just hung out, and the concrete lab guy and I snuck into the foreman’s truck (idling diesel with a/c) and snoozed until a new truck showed up. What else were we going to do?
I would however report people who habitually shirked work and snuck off to go sleep, or who couldn’t get their shit together enough to prevent the desk-naps from being more than an occasional thing. That is, unless it’s one of those unofficially accepted things like **Icarus **mentioned.
I wouldn’t need to report them. The last time a guy was repeatedly sleeping on the job a security guard took a picture of him. Instant HR meeting the next day. He didn’t get fired but was informed that it cannot happen again. Cameras everywhere. Night job, and staying awake is literally almost the entire job. Read a book, surf the net, watch a movie, but do not sleep. It is a bit like being on fire watch in a military barracks. The fastest way for your world to go to shit is to sleep on the job.
Wow, some of you are harsh. I usually decide on a case-by-case basis of whether or not the individual is pulling their fair share of work around the office. If they are, I ignore their sleeping and wake them discreetly if necessary. If it’s a slacker, wake them immediately.
If someone else is being lazy that isn’t my business, unless they’re my direct report.
Honestly, if any of my current co-workers were repeatedly falling asleep I would be concerned about their health.