Anyone else have trouble lying in?

[Ebor337]

Really starting to piss me off.

Been knackered all week at work and on an evening, been saying to the missus all week, "can't wait to have a lie in this weekend". Then when the weekend finally comes round i wake up at my usual time for work (6.00 -> 6.30) and cannot for the life of me get back to sleep! Starting to really get to me as it has been happening for a good few months now. I know trying to get to sleep can have an adverse affect on you actually getting to sleep but i've tried everything! Even getting up and having a wash/shower. . . .

[Spooner]

Yup, Had this problem for a while...Got up at 7 when im doing nothing today.

[TheRat]

Aint been to sleep yet

To be honest I been getting up well for my Spanish course, apart from the Thursday after the champs league final I haven't missed one!
I'm useless for about an hour after I wake up if disturbed, but touch wood never have trouble getting a lie in

[AJ]

just wait till you have kids, lie in is a thing of the past

[Big Andy]

I've never been one for lying in, even after a heavy night on the pop. It was satisfying enough for me to get up, often earlier than on a workday, and not have to go to work. I hated the idea of wasting any of my day off just lying about in bed.

[ScottyXS]

Guy if its gettin to you, you could try some off-the shelf sleeping tablets from your local pharmacy.

I dont usually have any bother sleeping, but my natural sleeping pattern (because I only work parttime, and its online, so can work whenever I want basically) when Im not at uni- is the opposite of what it should be, sleep mostly through day, and up at night, working.
Now this is awright for me during christmas etc, but during the exam time, were off for long periods of time (couple of weeks), then suddenly an exam the next day.
I use sleeping pills to regulate my sleep just before those exams.

I would recommend them as they dont seem to have any noticeable sideeffects, when taken in moderation, and usually work a treat, easily giving a good fullnights sleep. Its the 2 a night, Nytol ones I go for

[Carl]

I cant stay in bed too long, apart from the kids Im like Andy, I cant just stay in bed wasting the day away. Id hear someone say "Didn't get out of bed till 2pm....." Jesus before you know it its time for tea and ready to settle down for the night.

having said that this week a couple of times Ive been in bed with the laptop reading the newspaper till 10am (like now) but theres no way I could go back to sleep for an hour now, even tho I didnt come to bed till after 2am.

As soon as the sun is glaring through the window thats me wide wake.

[Cassius Marcellus]

If you're an 8 hours a night person, if you live to be 75, you'll have spent 25 years asleep.

Lazy cnut.

Do a shift work job if you can't sleep, you get paid more on nights.

[Carl]

I fooking hated working nights at my last place.
10-6 every 3rd week, Mon till Saturday am.
The job itself was a good job, we had a right laugh but at 3.30 in the morning you hit the wall and a few times I got caught slavering in the chair tongue hanging out snoring away whilst on a break.

And there was the time we all got caught in the canteen for 2 hours all crashed out on the sofas, we had 4 vending machines and a brew machine so we'd go up after doing all the work leaving the machines just turning round. Keeping an eye on these vending machines was a big brother cctv camera but this particular night it was facing the other way. We all got suspended for 3 days with pay, it was a good time cus Phil Mitchell got shot.

Theres nothing worse than falling asleep at home an hour before your heading into an 8 hour shift.

Fook night shifts, permanant nights would be better as your body goes into a routine but the 3 shift pattern was fooking awful.

[Cassius Marcellus]

I was on 3 shifts at Scottish Courage. The best shift was on 6-2, as I'm always up early. Only 6 or 8 of us in, and there was fcuk all to do most days except 'Goods In' so I'd jump on a double handler fork truck, 12 lifts of 2 pallets each, and a 40 footer was done in about 10 minutes if you had a mate who moved the lorry sheets as you went along. Drop them in the warehouse, then go for a smoke and a cuppa while you wait 20 minutes for office bods to give you a computerised location, even though you knew where they were going to be stored.

2-10 was a cnut of a shift. 60 men in, and non-stop for 8 hours, I fcuking hated it, used to get put on order picking when I never had a dray to load. You work faster than the aficans, on the same money, and if you moan to management, they tell you you're out of order. If you slowed down to their speed, they give you a bollocking. Cnuts.

Nights was bliss. Dray loading all night, and I got to be a regular loader on some of the east end rounds where I used to play darts in previous years. I used to load them as requested by the driver, not how the transport department said. If any 'extras' were in the picks, they still got loaded.

Tried to get on permanent nights but nobody ever left that shift. They worked hard all night, but were on £10-80 an hour weekday nights, and after midnight on Friiday was £14-40 an hour, the same as Sundays.

It was a new warehouse, and when there was a fire drill, everybody had their set points to report to. On our first drill, me and about 8 others stood on the far side of the yard. When the FLM asked us what the fcuk we were doing, we said we didn't mind for a drill, but in a real fire we'd stand where we were.

He asked ' Why?' and was told to look behind the brick wall that all the other 60 or so staff were lined up against.

He came back and said ' I've made a note of that.'

Behind the wall were the gas tanks where the fork trucks filled up.

Nice place to assemble in a fire.

FLMs were on £32k p.a. plus bonuses and overtime.

W@nkers

[Ebor337]

Up again at 7! I think if I am a mornign person, the only way round it is to go to bed at 9!

[Red Dragon]

Originally Posted by Cassius Marcellus

If you're an 8 hours a night person, if you live to be 75, you'll have spent 25 years asleep.

Lazy cnut.

Do a shift work job if you can't sleep, you get paid more on nights.

Not around here you don't! F**king North!

[Cassius Marcellus]

Scottish Courage depot is in Dagenham, that was 3 years ago.

Same here in Norfolk mate, and all the crap jobs pay £5-62 an hour.

We were considering a move up to Cumbria a few years ago, had a look at a few houses near Coniston Water, but they were too expensive, even with what we got for our house in London, and also too tiring to drive down to London to see the family and get back the same day.

Came to Cambridgeshire first, then Norfolk, wish I fcuking hadn't, sooner have a job and a mortgage.

[aliando]

Originally Posted by AJ

just wait till you have kids, lie in is a thing of the past

- my exact thoughts when i read the first post!



never have been able to lie in though - before kids arrived somewhere between half seven and eight was always my natural wake up time, but it never bothered me.

[ubermonkey1]

i have always had a bit of insomnia myselfi never seem to be able to get more than 6 hrs sleep.
actually it sort of caused me to find pl .
i started playing poker coz there's not a lot to do at 5 am in the morning
started doing ok(mainly due to the drunk american clientel as its 11-midnight in the us),then through poker i found pl
one thing i would recommend is blackout blinds/curtains
used to find the summer was always worse due to earlier daybreak etc, so it might explain why its started a couple of months ago.

[Cassius Marcellus]

Originally Posted by ubermonkey1

i have always had a bit of insomnia myselfi never seem to be able to get more than 6 hrs sleep.
actually it sort of caused me to find pl .
i started playing poker coz there's not a lot to do at 5 am in the morning
started doing ok(mainly due to the drunk american clientel as its 11-midnight in the us),then through poker i found pl
one thing i would recommend is blackout blinds/curtains
used to find the summer was always worse due to earlier daybreak etc, so it might explain why its started a couple of months ago.

I get by on 4 to 5 hours sleep most nights, and I'm up to the khazi every one and a half to two hours for a piss. I got used to it. I've never been a sleeper, even when I was a kid, or when I was drunk. If I want a good sleep, that's 4 or 5 hours non-stop, I go without sleep for one night, drink minimal liquid during the day, then pop down a few painkillers

My sister tells all that her husband gets up at 5-30 every day. I should think he fcuking does, he goes to bed at 9.

[ubermonkey1]

if i fall asleep at 9 i'm up at 3 in the morning
that said it aint all bad i never feel really knackered ,would be nice to have a layin once in a while though.