Do you have nightmares about your job?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Do you have nightmares about your job?

Posted: 3/16/2005 3:50:52 PM EDT

I just had a real bad one, maybe I should use a sick day today

Yeah theres nothing quite as nice as having a bad dream about the place then wake up & have to go there . The sad thing is I used to enjoy going in untill they hired this ego driven retard to be head supervisor. I'd like to push him out a window & let him dangle over the parking lot by his ratty ponytail

yeah that would be fun.

Posted: 3/16/2005 3:53:19 PM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
I just had a real bad one, maybe I should use a sick day today Yeah theres nothing quite as nice as having a bad dream about the place then wake up & have to go there . The sad thing is I used to enjoy going in untill they hired this ego driven retard to be head supervisor. I'd like to push him out a window & let him dangle over the parking lot by his ratty ponytail yeah that would be fun.

It's a work-mare.

I only had them after leaving the last place. That I was still there. New place is awesome.

Posted: 3/16/2005 4:13:00 PM EDT

[#2]

I make it a policy to put any time spent dreaming about work on my time card.

Posted: 3/16/2005 4:15:34 PM EDT

[#3]

It's my policy also but it never happens. I've chased bad guys all night long for the last 5+ years.
Wife hates it, what can ya do?

Posted: 3/16/2005 4:57:50 PM EDT

[#4]

I sometimes have nightmares about my old job: mortician.

Posted: 3/16/2005 5:00:18 PM EDT

[#5]

I started having literal nightmares about choosing my precision rifle. It was for some reason between the FNH A3G USG (Which I want) and the HS Precision HTR. Then I had a few about a GA Precision Rock...

It sucks.

Posted: 3/16/2005 5:01:38 PM EDT

[#6]

My wife tells me I have wood damn near all night so I'm guessing not.

Posted: 3/16/2005 5:09:38 PM EDT

[#7]

no, I like my job.

Posted: 3/16/2005 5:10:47 PM EDT

[#8]

I never dream about my job anymore, but none of my dreams are good.

Posted: 3/16/2005 5:11:03 PM EDT

[#9]

I quit my job 4 months ago, and I still have dreams about it.

Posted: 3/16/2005 5:42:18 PM EDT

[#10]

Two different jobs. It was my sign that something was stressing me out and I needed a change. For the first one it wasn't a big deal because I was temping in another postion for the day. So I never went back. The second time required a bit more work to figure out how to get out of the crap that was stressing me. Once I found it, I didn't have those nightmares again.

Posted: 3/16/2005 5:43:07 PM EDT

[#11]

What if your job is a nightmare?

Posted: 3/16/2005 6:22:11 PM EDT

[#12]

Sometimes, when I have a lot of problems with the water plant I run. No night shift operator, so I have an alarm next to my bed.

If I ignore something I might be able to fix in the morning, of course it will alarm at 2 AM. Get a few of those and you will dream about it.

Some joker replaced the alarm.wav file with a wav file of a woman moaning in extacy. I hate both those sounds now. Getting to a steamy movie scene gets me irritated by association - makes me think of tanks overflowing, polymer pump problems, recycle pump tripping....

Posted: 3/16/2005 7:30:57 PM EDT

[#13]

Not lately thankfully .

Posted: 3/17/2005 2:13:33 AM EDT

[#14]

I used to dream about my old job. Loading trucks at UPS. Nothing interesting would happen. Just me loading trucks. I would wake up exhausted. It sucked!

Posted: 3/17/2005 2:18:56 AM EDT

[#15]

This whole thing is a nightmare, for every person I really help there are alot beyond my help.

Its like trying to save one person in a swarm of zombies, except without the shooting in the head and burning thing

Posted: 3/17/2005 2:30:33 AM EDT

[#16]

Sometimes after a long day (12+) I have bad dreams like soon as I go to bed I feel like I am back to work. My eyes are open but I just can't seem to get work out of my head. Nothing worse than waking up feeling like you have just worked 27 straight hours.

Posted: 3/17/2005 2:33:49 AM EDT

[#17]

i had a dream last week my boss came in and installed a slurpy machine.

for some reason, i found this deeply disturbing......

Posted: 3/17/2005 3:03:30 AM EDT

[#18]

My nightmare already happened on 11 Sept. 2001

Posted: 3/17/2005 3:04:28 AM EDT

[#19]

There are only two jobs worse then the one you now have; The one you quit to go where you are, and the one you are going to.

Posted: 3/17/2005 3:05:20 AM EDT

[#20]

the way you feel about your supervisor, I would just stay home today, if I were you

just my $.02 worth

Posted: 3/17/2005 3:13:22 AM EDT

[#21]

When a job starts eliciting nightmares, and regularly interrupts sleep, its time to find different work.

Posted: 3/17/2005 3:14:46 AM EDT

[#22]

The last desk job I had gave me nightmares. Imagine fighting an Excel spreadsheet to the death for seven hours while the pager and phones ring constantly, then having to get up and go do it for the next ten hours.

I love my job now and never dream about it.

Posted: 3/17/2005 3:16:19 AM EDT

[#23]

... Not really nightmares; but sometimes (like this morning) I wake thinking about my project I'm working and can't get much sleep afterwards

... When this happens, the nightmare begins about 2:00PM when I start losing my energy and focus

Posted: 3/17/2005 6:18:57 AM EDT

[#24]

My policy is "Any dream about work is a nightmare." So is any dream with the ex- in it. Fortunately I don't have many, especially starring the ex.

Now "traditional" type nightmares I really don't suffer from. I think because I think of them more as cool movies than scary dreams.

Posted: 3/17/2005 8:23:17 AM EDT

[#25]

Yep, I have them now, but with the stress, its kinda expected. It's really confusing when you're dreaming about outages and then the pager really goes off. You kinda have to take a step back and confirm its real.

I used to get them when I was delivering pizza, right after college too. I had the address, the pizza was really late, and everytime I tried to find the house, I'd wind up passing it and having to turn around. Everytime I did this, I'd just pass it again. It would go on and on until I woke up.

That's when I decided it was time to find a real career........

And a new recurring nightmare

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