For whatever reason, I continue to feel generally shattered at work. I've just got back from locking myself in one of the cubicles and having 10 minutes shut-eye.
Feel much better 🙂
what happened to sick bay's they were great for this sort of thing, the other option is underneath the desks, pull some boxes around you, sorted
Ummm, for me I think it's mainly boredom related. Sitting opposite my boss makes sleeping at work a little dangerous an activity.
I feel your pain ourmaninthenorth, not the most inspirational of companies along with heating maxed to 11 and never getting much shuteye on sunday night. My eyes feel so heavy, very frustrating being this tired.
"Get on with your coursework and wake me 5 minutes before the end of the lesson."
🙂
Should have joined the fire service..they get paid to do this!
A ten minute power nap works wonders - would be much more productive if our culture allowed for that.
Someone who works with a friend of mine apparently has a bubble wrap 'nest' under their desk 😯
Sure there's enough fresh air getting into the room? Sounds like not much oxygen to me.
I was once doing this, in a room in our basement. I don't know how long I'd been asleep when the light came on and half our IT department walked in. I rose, said "Good afternoon Gents" and left the room, but it was a bad moment. 🙂
BD - a very Briish approach. God man!
Someone who works with a friend of mine apparently has a bubble wrap 'nest' under their desk
i have a similar friend - except he has a cardboard box with a sleeping bag in!
I used to work with someone who fell asleep at the wheel, whilst waiting at a set of traffic lights!
I knew someone who fell asleep whilst topping up his car radiator in his lunch hour.
🙂
When i was a postgrad i'd frequently take naps in my cubicle. Those 11am starts really took it out of me.
I knew someone who fell asleep whilst topping up his car radiator in his lunch hour.
😀
At what point did "your friend" wake up? Forehead on the alternator..?!!
Don't the Japs get issued with little pillows so that they can have a quick nap at their desks?
You could always claim you're Japanese & it's a genetic requirement
You could always claim you're Japanese & it's a genetic requirement
But then I'd have to go back to working 80 hours a week.... 😥
If you said you were half-Japanese then it'd only be 40 hours a week...
In the new conservative manifesto,there is a clause saying every day, there will be a heads on desks hour,because nobody will be working and to drag the day out more thats what they suggest.
I have a colleague who is constantly nodding off in the office - normally she works from home, so we assume it is because she has to get up at stupid o'clock to get over to the office one day a week.
As she doesn't appear to crash her car too often, we assume she is not narcoleptic.
I used to work with a guy who always took a 40min nap at lunchtime in his chair in an open plan office - just leant back, closed his eyes and nodded off for 30mins or so..
I'm a lorry driver and a midday snooze is compulsory in my book.
Pillow - check
sleeping bag - check
Radio 3 - check
and Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I knew someone who fell asleep whilst topping up his car radiator in his lunch hour.At what point did "your friend" wake up? Forehead on the alternator..?!!
he was woken by a colleague who went out to find him 🙂
Google 'Epworth Sleepyness scale', fill it in, then post back here!
Let's see who's clinically the most tired!!
PS - bet i'll come high up the scale over the next few weeks - little'un arrived on wed!
DrP
Congrats - now get to bed, you'll need it. (father of 8 month old twins)
MrFC sleeps 6 or 7 hrs every night he is at work.
You poor little lambs.
Try working 8 nights, then tell me how tired you are...
Old City trick:
Need a nap? Go see a client. Take the Circle line. Stay on it asleep in a corner until you're rested. Then keep going/change to the other direction to get back. Never more than 45 minutes from the office 😉
i fell asleep in a seminar at uni once - a seminar which I was supposed to be taking. i was sat beside the head of dept, in his office with 5 other students. they carried on without me and he woke me at the end.
Always good to have beds at work 🙂
I had a job once Xraying welds in Oil pipelines. Because the oil pipes went across Saudi Arabia they were a little hot. So we went to work at 5am. I was the newbie who had to climb inside and put the Xray plate in position. It was still as hot as a Pizza oven, but there was no H&S in 1982.
No way could I get used to working at 5am, I spent most of the day asleep as soon as we got back to the office. I just shut myself in the Xray room, with the chair against the door, so when they opened the door it shoved the chair and woke me up. I was poised with a pen in one hand and some paperwork on the desk.
some years ago I once worked for a well known retailer who sells alot of bikes and car parts, I was on a late shift but had a chronic hangover due to a whole weekend on the lash.
Anyhow at around 7 pm ish I decided to go for a lie down on some cardboard, next thing I know is I woke up and it was all dark. It was 10.30 and the store had shut and all the staff gone.
Thank goodness for fire exits 🙂
The keyholder that day got blamed for leaving the door unsecure, I like a man decided to keep stum.
I was in the Uni bar 9pm doing homework in 1st yr and waiting for a GF to call me.
I wake up to my phone ringing at 1am and my mates, the other staff and bar manager thought it would be funny to leave me there head on note pad.
I couldn't get out and had to jump up and up down at the security camera-which were amused in their office-let me out eventually!
Try a danger ****, that should liven things up a bit.
as a teenager i used to work for a well known car accessory and bicycle retailer superstore. the edinburgh store had a warehouse half a mile away from the store where bikes and large items were stored.
during the busy festive period it was my job to go to the warehouse and build all the bikes due for collection the following day. the warehouse was otherwise unoccupied.
30 minutes was the allocated time to "build" a bike however in most circumstances a build involved removing from the box, fitting the front wheel and saddle then quick check so 5 minutes was adequate. so after the days work was done (around 10am) i would retire to the EuroXL roofbox packed with jumbo car sponges and travel blankets. best job i ever had 8)
<high fives Ziggy>
Sleeping at work in a lot of process & manufacturing industries = gross misconduct = being fired.
I fall asleep every friday after lunch break at my desk, as we go for a pub lunch on a friday
not a major problem as my boss does the same from time to time, not easy though as its feet up and head back which isnt all that comfortable and you have to be aware of other employees with water pistols and nerf guns
Sleeping at work in a lot of process & manufacturing industries = gross misconduct = being fired.
Is that speaking from experience? 😉
I have a nap probably every other day depending on what training i have been doing.
Just curl up under my desk, quite comfortable.Probably helps that I am the boss and normally only one in the office !
.....nothing like the feeling of motorway rumble strips to sharpen the mind.
when I had a proper job, used to work shifts. 6-2 we had a lunch break at 12.30(amazing innnit)guarenteed 1/2 hour kip!
Was never sleepy on nightshift-too busy playing FIFA & Tiger Woods on the pc!
I'm in my bed at the moment 😀
just returned from a fire in some poor bugger's house and have no doubt we'll be out to an alarm at some student's residences in a moment!
Can normally get a couple of hours shut eye for which I consider myself very fortunate. You take the rough with the smooth. Right on cue Im offf
I used to sleep everynight on my 12 hr shift, i'd have ny cereal about 02:30 and be out like a light by 3 for an hour.
I did it for 5yrs and now my body clock is shagged 🙄
My last job we had a walk-in cupboard for "IT equipment". It was, however, completely empty and could be locked from the inside. Given only 3 keys existed, whenever someone needed a kip, they'd pick up the keys, slope off to the other side of the office and have 30 mins rest.
As a young chap with a sense of adventure I did national service in Finland where my mum is from.
One guy in my dorm was a utterly lazy ****er. When they decided it was a good idea for our unit to do a 20 minute run every morning at 5.30 before breakfast, he'd get his mate to padlock him in his locker while we were out in -10. Lucky for him it wasn't a standalone one otherwise i'd have tipped it over. He also used to go to medical every day to try and miss training. To avoid any alternative duties he'd set his sleeping bag up under his bed and sleep all day. I hated him the little git!
However, I did fall asleep while we were stopped on a major excercise though and woke up to an officer kicking snow in my face. At least I was trying!
Took a pic of an old boss once sleeping at his desk with his head resting on his In-Tray, didn't use it for blackmail though 😉
as a student I got a summer job working nights at a print works. I sayworking but actually what happened would be I'd clock in, make a cup of tea, go out the back and have a spliff, then curl up in one of the skips and sleep til it got light, clock out and go home.
Took them 3 months to suss it, no-one on the shift gave a crap 🙂
Right, straight after some lunch and I'm off for 3.5 hours of training on something nice and technical.
I so wish I knew how to avoid going to sleep right now..!
i fell asleep in the boardroom one friday afternoon when i was suppose to be chasing clients.
went in there at 1.30, WOKE UP at 6.40!! the place was all locked up, i set the alarm off, police were called out as i strolled out of the side door into the carpark.. i was gutted that nobody actually noticed where i was or cared??!!
its alot to do with not enough fresh air.. i work in a protakabin within the warehouse, its shocking
during my undergrad I worked Sat and Sun at B&Q. As this involved a 6 am start, usually after a '10 pints for 50p' deal the night before, I often used to climb the racking in the garden centre and sleep it off in one of the garden sheds (they were displayed at several levels)... I wouldn't have done it if I had any kind of respect for my boss (****er was always moaning he couldn't find me) 😆
i have a foam roll and pillow that i roll out on the 3rd shelf up in the warehouse.
this is used on a regular basis, on a monday, after a hard day's riding on the sunday.
I'd sack the lot of yiz.....