Fell asleep at work, kill me now

[AKMD]

In a particularly boring meeting with my manager, my manager's manager and colleagues from another site, I fell asleep Manager's manager woke me up I am going to die with embarassment.

Don't worry, I've done this before now and so has my boss! (I'm not pregnant and he's male!)

Do they know your pregnant? Has anybody said anything bad?

I'm 28 weeks with a definite bump. They know.

M's M stopped the meeting, woke me up and asked if I was ok, then re-started. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! A quick dig in the ribs would have had the same effect maybe

Oh dear, maybe it will make them think about how boring their meetings are :) I almost fell asleep at work (am a teacher) early on, luckily the kids were out at break and I managed to get myself together before they arrived back in the classroom. Easily done tho, especially in the heat!

I'd tell him to make his meetings more interesting then!

I fell asleep at my desk during a free lesson when I was marking at 29 weeks

Or maybe the air conditioning in that meeting room could be fixed... That would be good.

No one has said anything since, thank goodness.

Nice to know I'm not the only one!

I fall asleep everywhere, AKMD, I'm famous for it! I don't think I've ever seen a film all the way through (DVD at home or cinema), I even got thrown out of a nightclub for falling asleep and I wasn't even drinking!

I've done this too ... and I wasn't pregnant so couldn't use that in my defence.

I fell asleep in a top-level meeting last year too. Luckily the directors are all fab and didn't care that the junior member of staff was nodding off over her laptop. My excuse was that as it was abroad and we were staying in a hotel it was the first time in two years I'd had a decent night's sleep after being pg and then having a non-sleeping baby.

Far less embarassing that this time round as it wasn't actually pointed out.

How often typically do you have breaks in meetings at your company, AKMD.

The all-day or all-morning type ones tend to have a break every 2 hours or so. Anything shorter doesn't get a break.

Done this
Twice
On a night shift
In the loo!

Not pregnant.
I feel your pain

Bless you, I fell asleep in a meeting at work before most people knew I was pg my colleague (who didn't know) kept poking me but I still crashed out. Luckily my managers didnt care :) and I got lots of understanding 'oh so that's why.....' a couple of weeks later.

Two hours is a long time without a break, no wonder you're nodding off, pregnant or not! I wouldn't expect staff to go longer than an hour maximum without a 5/10 minute break, quick coffee, toilet break, stretch the legs.

I fell asleep during a meeting with my new line manager, as she was explaining a very long document about the new changes to the EYFS (I'm a teacher)... as I was only 6 weeks pregnant at the time, I couldn't even explain it away!!

Totally mortified.... :(

Aah, did it turn out OK in the end, Phoenix?

Nope, she still seems a bit off with me but I'll be able to tell her I'm pregnant in September and hopefully she'll understand then! Though, knowing her, probably even less impressed that I'll only be there three terms this year before maternity leave kicks in.... Sigh.... Work fills me with dread at the moment :(

Aww phoenix good thing it's the summer holidays! You can start maternity leave at 29 weeks.