Whether in office, or when working from home, do you ever sleep at work? If yes, how often?
I have had quick 5-10 minute naps many times at my old in-office job. It was a very small company. Some days there were only 2 of us in one of the cabins, so it was pretty easy, she was okay with it. Sometimes, if she had to ask me something and found me taking a nap, she was like, nevermind, you can go back to sleep. Since she sat near the door, she would alert me if one of the bosses is coming around.
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I dont.
While an apprentece when i was switching medication i did fall asleep once, got told off and it was super emberessing
Only once, but they caught me and I got fired for being “wildly irresponsible”. It was just for like 15 seconds, the bus barely went off the road.
Fuck these billionair bus company CEO’s. They’re all like “we’re a family” when they want you to work overtime, but they’re like “you’re fired for almost killing 50 children” when you take a much needed nap the next day.
Waking up at work sounds like a nightmare.
Mebbe it’s soon time to go home?!!
Kinda hard to fall asleep when I don’t sit at a desk.
wfh
like every other day at lunch I have a short nap. dealing with stupid shit is exhausting
I think companies should invest in creating some sleep pods or nap rooms with recliners to let employees have a quick nap now and then, I think it’d better for your mental health and would actually make people more productive if they could take a short break from work without feeling guilty or worried about it
I need a CPAP to sleep, so naps are basically impossible for me
But at a past job doing tech support at a web hosting company, where I was still new and assigned to the night shift, it was just me and another guy who was supposed to support me, and be the acting manager.
At night we’d be lucky to get more than one or two calls, and maybe a handful of live chats, so we’d mostly do tickets all night.
Well, I would. He would curl up at his desk and sleep for 7 hours, then speed through a bunch of really easy tickets (that he’d botch) in order to have respectable metrics.
There were others in a different department who knew about this, so on at least one occasion, they drew a penis on his forehead while he slept. Even though our boss saw this, the slacker wasn’t fired, as he was one of the few who actively wanted the night shift.
When I was a much younger i worked masonry as a hod carrier. Moving mud, brick, block and stone. Often first on the site and last to leave. Lots of prep and cleanup. I worked really fucking hard.
One day while at lunch I fell asleep in the back of my truck. Woke up around quitting time. Boss man just let me sleep. Paid me for it too! All cleanup was done.
One of the best construction gigs I ever had. Never before and never since had I been as valued for my hard work like I was there. Good pay and great bonuses, time off and respect.
Built many multimillion dollar houses during my time there. Still yearn for the feeling of being on the top of 30 feet of scaffolding on a brisk summer morning talking to old Joe.
I work remotely, I nap occasionally when needed.
Not all the time. Usually work a bit later or something to make up for it.
But it’s a waste of time for me to sit a my desk pretending to do work when I’m not, I’d rather just take a 25 minute nap and get back to it.
Same. If I find myself spacing out at my desk and don’t have anything scheduled, I’ll hop over to the couch and lay down for 15 or 20 minutes. Even if I don’t fully fall asleep, letting myself drift puts me in a much more productive mindset when I go back to my desk.
Though I don’t worry about making up for that time, since I assume everybody else has their own little remote work cheats to get through the day.
Never
I used to nap daily for 20-40 mins on a 1-hour lunch in my car. I hated the job and had a 75 minute commute while never letting myself go to bed early enough. I got pretty good at it and can nap pretty effectively. 26 minutes is how long you want to be asleep for, according to NASA. It helps to have a routine to make both falling asleep and waking easier
Well im not getting a raise this year…so yes…a lot.
Never. I dont even nap at home. Sleeping during daytime only makes me more tired.
Never.
This.
Now, that’s not to say I haven’t slacked off in other ways, but to be so obvious as to sleep? No.
And I say this as someone who has worked nights and been on call and had severe sleep deprivation as a result, but I still never slept at work.
When I was in the Army all the time. Hell it is insane where GIs fall asleep.
I used to work in a special needs shelter as basically a night watchman so I would sleep in the office all the time.
At my current job, not much.
Sleep? Never.
Lay there with my eyes closed while I wait for something to do? Nearly every day.
