How often do you sleep at work?
4d 2h ago by discuss.tchncs.de/u/nutbutter in asklemmy
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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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.
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.
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.
Well im not getting a raise this year...so yes...a lot.
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
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.
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.
Never. I dont even nap at home. Sleeping during daytime only makes me more tired.
Not as often as I think about doing it.
My job is engaging and active and I enjoy it. And due to the nature of the job, I get paid more the busier I am, so there's no incentive to goldbrick.
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
Sleep? Never.
Lay there with my eyes closed while I wait for something to do? Nearly every day.
I’m one of the worst employees ever when I work for someone but that is surprisingly something I never got to do
I would when I ran out of work to do. Whenever I was told off for it, I told them just to give me more work to do. Haven't fallen asleep since
When we had a couch at the old office I used to have a nap in it during the afternoon coffee break.
Kinda hard to do as a janitor at a restaurant. Ain't got nowhere to hide for a nap, unless I curl up in the freezer. 🤷♂️
I worked food service years ago and im pretty sure walking into the freezer to find someone curled up would have sent me into panic mode thinking you froze to death.
When I worked nights at my current job I could go into any of the back offices and get in a good 2-3 hours of sleep each night if I wanted. At one point I got a talking to for not being “on camera” for too long but they could never prove what I was doing so it was just a warning and not a write-up.
I work day shift now so I can’t do that anymore, but I’m also getting better sleep so I don’t really have to.
In the office, never because that just isn't an environment where I could doze off. Too many noises and distractions.
When working from home I will occasionally doze off on my 15 minute breaks with a timer set. Best way to take a quick break and I get way more done afterwards than I would tired.
Basically never now, thankfully. My old job would send me out to the field where a lot of the day was spent waiting for things to happen. Luckily those things often involved loud noises, so I'd be woken up and didn't miss anything.
For more context, I work for an environmental company where part of our work is overseeing the importing and exporting of soil (dirt) and stone (rocks) from jobsites. Depending on where in the state you are, it could be a 3 hour round trip from the jobsite to the quarry/landfill. I'd bring a folding chair, or just sit in my car near where the loading/unloading was.
For import, the dump trucks would roll in and then just dump their whole load. The noise came from the tailgate slamming shut after the entire truck was emptied. It would wake me up every time.
Then for export, a bulldozer would be dumping rocks, concrete, or soil into a dump truck. That was usually pretty loud itself which would wake me up.
According to the weekly dump logs (lol), I never missed a truck.
Never
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.
wfh
like every other day at lunch I have a short nap. dealing with stupid shit is exhausting
I've slept once and been caught. Everybody laughed because I was watching one of those online courses.
I never do to be honest. I dont nap. For better or worse.
WFH lunch naps have saved my soul.
I dont.
While an apprentece when i was switching medication i did fall asleep once, got told off and it was super emberessing
I work from home and try not to nap. Napping can interfere with getting a good night's sleep and I have difficulty with that enough as it is.
With that said, there are times where I will lay down for 20 minutes to reset the clock as it were. Usually about two or three times a month. I used to try and nap often, but stopped when my primary informed that it can disrupt my sleep pattern. And yes, my sleep pattern was royally screwed in those days.
Now, if I feel I need a nap I try to exercise. Either go out for a hike when it's warmer. I picked up an elliptical off of Nextdoor and use it when it's not nice outside. Yes, it's tough to not just flop into my bed, which sits behind my workstation rather than hit the elliptical, but I managed to form a new habit.
I’m typically active for 6 hours of an 8 hour shift. I’m pretty sure that sleeping, even if on a break, is terminable where I work.
I generally nap at lunch when I should be eating instead.
I WFH, so I take a short nap on quet days a few times per week.
Technically, being a truck driver, I sleep at work every day. There's a mattress right behind my seat.
Most of my trips these days aren't long enough to warrant pulling over to catch some shut-eye, but I've been that desperate in the past. Never on a highway shoulder though, I'd always try to be safer than that.
The vast majority of my customers will load and unload my truck for me, so usually, once I back into a dock door, it's nap time.
Not.
All the fucking time.
I did do a lot of midnight work to counterbalance, but when I was almost fully remote and super depressed, I would take a lot of nap days.
Honestly, fuck companies, they deserve the bare minimum.
Every time I can, I take a 30 minute power nap during my lunch break. Only once during a meeting (remote with my camera off) but thankfully no one seemed to notice.
When I take breaks, it's no longer work.