The Sleeping Gnome

So, I've been intending to get this posted for three days, here it is!

My oh so pleasant manager goes to a meeting a "Hot Meeting" with me and a bunch of others in our Service Delivery group. It can be a lengthy meeting and last up to an hour. Various conversations and topics can be brought up that are sometimes dull and do not pertain to the topic of the meeting.

So, here we are Wednesday, the meeting is nearly over. Almost all topics are taken care of except 2. Brice, one of the managers, asks a question directed at Hans. Hans does not respond, so Brice asks again and encourages Hans to respond, Hans does not. I respond to Brice so the meeting can proceed and we can move on.

Hans apparently had a rough night. When Brice was talking to him, he was sleeping. Head down on his chest, eyes closed, oblivious to anything going on in the meeting. When he did not respond, people begin to chuckle and a few are looking in my direction snickering. I'm still unsure why they would look to me, other than my feelings towards Hans are no secret and this was just too funny. The only thing that would have made it better would be if someone had a camera, sadly, no one did.

Unfortunately for the group, we were unable to "sneak" out of the meeting quietly leaving Hans to nap away in solitude. Nor was the President of the company present at this time (he left to meeting earlier for another meeting). So now we have a new joke to laugh about that little gnome.