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Originally Posted by Supersonic
Going without sleep does it for me. Had gone just over three nights/four days without sleeping. Ended up falling asleep at the wheel and driving through a phone poll. Nobody other than myself were injured luckily. I had just left a pt's house and needless to say people didn't like that . Was accused of being on drugs. Clean tests in ER proved otherwise. I kept my job, but two years later had another bout of going without sleep and passed out in a facilities lobby while doing paperwork. That was the end of that job. No good.
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I've fallen asleep at jobs before too. Once I was working for one of my older sisters in a day care. She didn't have much patience for me to begin with. I was struggling a lot, and she could see that and it bothered her, so she would heap extra work on me to "teach me a lesson." Plus she knew she could get away with that with me. The other workers picked up on that and would dump stuff on me that was supposed to be their job. I got screamed at (literally) for stuff I didn't even do, and she would do this in front of everyone. I worked in the kitchen too-I had to make breakfast for the kids, clean up the kitchen, make snacks for later, and then be in the classroom by nine to help the teacher. Well, after breakfast, the teachers were supposed to take their kids back to their classrooms and let me clean. Well, they didn't feel like doing that, so I would have to watch 30-40 kids BY MYSELF and try to clean the kitchen. I don't drive, and there's no bus in my city so I had to walk to work. Normally I don't mind that except, that was a three mile walk from my house and I had to be there at seven in the morning! Often, I was expected to stay until 6 in the evening, because no one else would do it. then I had to walk another three miles home. After a while, all that started to catch up with me, and I got sick but I still had to come in to work. One time during class, I just sat down and fell asleep.