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Location: Scott County, Tennessee/by way of Detroit
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My husband's police dept had guys who would fall asleep while driving the car..one guy hit a roundabout and the other fell asleep and bajaed over a ditch...thank goodness they never hit another car.this is something you don't hear about on the news..I am sure people don't expect cops to fall asleep on the job....they do.it happens even for a second...very scary.....6pm to 6am...If you had kids it was hard...just like anybody else a lot of guys couldn't come right home and fall into bed...my husband got hardly any sleep.. It was awful... He retired 2 months ago..no more sleeping aids....
My husband's police dept had guys who would fall asleep while driving the car..one guy hit a roundabout and the other fell asleep and bajaed over a ditch...thank goodness they never hit another car.this is something you don't hear about on the news..I am sure people don't expect cops to fall asleep on the job....they do.it happens even for a second...very scary.....6pm to 6am...If you had kids it was hard...just like anybody else a lot of guys couldn't come right home and fall into bed...my husband got hardly any sleep.. It was awful... He retired 2 months ago..no more sleeping aids....
Depends, I have cops in the family so I expect them to.
My cousin often works doubles several times a week, bounce back and forth between shifts throughout the week. Pretty standard for a new hire to pull that kind of rotation.
Location: Scott County, Tennessee/by way of Detroit
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Originally Posted by Malloric
Depends, I have cops in the family so I expect them to.
My cousin often works doubles several times a week, bounce back and forth between shifts throughout the week. Pretty standard for a new hire to pull that kind of rotation.
I am asking this because i saw a recording of a NYC MTA conductor nodding off for maybe 5 minutes.
You are either kidding or you are the conductor in question. We're not talking about nodding off as the night auditor at the Hampton Inn in BF, Egypt. "Nodding" while driving a train is about the worst possible job to fall asleep at.
Some jobs you can't help it if you are not out and about moving around.
If it's a continual problem of not being able to stay awake at all, then either reassign or let go of employee after warnings. Little nods here and there at times depending on job is to be expected.
I worked night shift twice in my career, one time for almost a year and a half, and a year recently. Absolutely horrible. No matter how much I tried to sleep during the day, my body never got used to it.
It depends how much of an accident it was. Falling asleep blatantly reading something is much different than falling asleep leaning over your desk using your sweater or jacket as a pillow.
I've worked quite a bit of night shift, you can typically get up and walk around or something if you're that tired.
The first scenario is what i am talking about.
I did not even know they were called micro sleeping.
I work for a pharmaceutical company and employees are not even allowed to sleep in their own vehicles at lunch and break times. Many of the night shift jobs are very boring (however; responsible) jobs. We do get a shift differential and they expect us to come to work well rested. If you cannot; then your in the wrong industry - there is always somebody to replace you. It sounds cruel and insensitive - but that's life and what is expected of us. We do make products that go into the human body and one mistake could cost us all our jobs.
Not in nursing!
It is hard to replace nurses esp for night shifts.
We do not get paid differentials either.
I think people are getting "nodding" and sleeping confused
Exactly! I think too many people have a late shift job as a "second job." In a perfect world people would be compensated a lot more than 15% to work a second shift job and thus would not need a first shift job.
If you want your workers to not need to "moonlight," compensate them accordingly.
Our roads would also be much safer if people were not driving to and from work being sleep deprived.
My job does not even offer shift differentials.
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