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from:msnbc.comIf you feel yourself nodding off during a meeting today, rest assured that you're not the only one. Nearly one in five Americans reported falling asleep or being drowsy in situations that required a high level of concentration, a new study says.
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Isn't that what the "Mute" button is for during conference calls?
This is testament to the fact that Americans spend inordinate amounts of wasted time sitting in meetings that accomplish little to nothing. They are just a giant excuse to not have to actually do any work.
Count me as one of the dozers. Can't help it. it just happens. It doesn't matter how sleepy I am before the meeting.
This is NEWS? Makes me tired!!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... Huh??
At my old job, we had meetings twice a week that lasted anywhere from 2 to 3.5 hours. There was no reason for me to be there - they just wanted everyone in the company at these meetings. I got reprimanded once because I seemed to be falling asleep at them. I wonder why.
Meetings are generally a waste of time. They last way too long and nothing much gets accomplished.
Exactly. Too many, too long, and boring.
So much so, that those sitting in the front row, got either money or tickets to the ( cant mention City) baseball game.
Also, not to forget the Meetings in the mornings, after doing the Night Shift.
This meeting will come to ord...
zzzzz
The numbers are upside down 5 sleep and 1 speaks (and this is a sleepwalker)!
Its good money when you can be paid for sleeping through a meeting.
Maybe they hired you, based on your name.
Maybe 1 in 5 are prone to dozing in meetings, but usually more than 1 in 5 didn't need to be in that meeting anyway!
I don't know, if I "get tired" during meetings, and long drives, but it's because my brain is bored. For example if I'm conducting the meeting, I'm wide awake, or if I bring CD's to sing to in the car, I can manage. I don't think lack of sleep is what's causing the tiredness in these people, maybe in some, but not in all...maybe some brains need to multitask, and when it can't, it shuts down...just a theory...
I once fell asleep while participating in a teleconference meeting while driving. Fortunately my helper monkey grabbed the wheel just in time. We had a good laugh about it later at the House of Pancakes.
I got sleepy just reading this! I dispise meetings, we have meetings for everything! I know we have meetings because some idiot wants to hear himself speak and dance around the room.
What a nonsense article. One sentence proved that all scientists that were involved with this were public school dropouts. I mean really:
a recent study reported falling asleep or being drowsy in situations that required a high level of concentration, such as during meetings or conversations.
Now really, has anybody ever been at a long meeting and believed that it required a 'high level of concentration'? Meetings are to listen to idiots that desire to spend their lives grandstanding. And as for conversations, the exact opposite. Have you ever seen two people having a conversation and suddenly one of them falls asleep? Please, the premise of the article is absurd as is the author.
I take issue with the high level of concentration notion--If I am in a meeting in which something is actually being accomplished, I'm concentrating on it and am not drowsy. I get drowsy at meetings which are total nonsense and the speakers just drone on and on and on without saying anything.
I've had the head bob before that situation where your body is trying to fall asleep but your trying to fight it, because MOST meetings are made by people that want to seem busier then they are so they can keep their job. AND most meetings need to be 10-15 minutes long instead of these 2-4 hour bull crap stuff. If people paid attention to the first 15 minutes instead of talking to other people they would be over alot faster instead of having to go over everything again and again and again.
If they're not dozing, they're reading e mails or texting! What does that say about meetings. Useless.... unless there is participation from everyone and a challenging agenda.
I think the author of the article is misintrepreting the results of the study and is assuming that it is a result of lack of sleep. I have always felt I had some kind of listening disorder. In school I was never able to follow any of my teachers lectures. It would take an enourmous amount of effort and left me drained. I don't think this has anything to do with lack of sleep or intelligence. I learned by reading. In one night of reading I could learn as much as the teacher covered in a weeks of lectures. I received good grades, a very high SAT score and am currently a computer programmer.
This, being undoubtedly one of the most revealing and accurate scientific reports ever attempted though MSNBC by its puppeteers, can only mean one thing: 4 out of the same 5 people are extraordinarily boring.
Thank you, Sherlocks of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC in San Antonio, Texas.
Keep after that grant money. So useful!
Many people fall asleep because the majority of the meeting doesn't even involve them. If you're not actively involved in the discussion then why be there. I find I'm wide awake and alert when the situation involves me directly or if the conversation is interesting or maybe funny but otherwise, where's my pillow.
Meetings are for political climbers who bore the people who do the actual work. 10 minute stand-up meetings are okay for the big boss to fill everyone in, but sit-down meetings are an expensive waste of time.
Oh no, I say, I say, I say Boy! You got it all wrong.
Sit down meetings are for people with nothing to do already to sit around and blame everyone else about the things that went wrong in the company.
Business 101:
Rule#1 - Aways have someone to blame.
Rule#2 - Never be in the same room where a decision is being made.
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The article is right on, no matter how one may take it. The problem is and probably will always be "people driving and nodding off." Who cares if they nod off at a meeting!
Meetings are tough. Most of the time they're a waste of time, especially when organizing them. Online schedulers do help, especially free ones like meebee.com. It's fun to use, too. http://bit.ly/7yXxag