Are we all doing this now, because I’m exhausted by noon everyday. (TikTok screencap)
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I used to work for Comcast at their corporate HQ. One day while walking around waiting for my Blackberry app to finish compiling (this could literally take upwards of an hour because every module incorporated had to be digitally signed by a different RIM server - sometimes it would never finish at all and I would go home) I discovered a sick room with a very comfortable long couch. I started taking 30 minute naps here and my post-lunch productivity skyrocketed. I made the mistake of mentioning this room to one of the Infosys employees and that was the end of my naps. That room was permanently occupied from that point on.
I eventually started pulling a George Costanza and sleeping under the desk in my cubicle, hidden by a filing cabinet and my chair with a crocheted blankie draped over it. Corporate hatred of naps is just so fucking stupid and counterproductive.
This is me working from home. My one hour lunch is just my one hour nap, if you quickly drink coffee before the nap, you wake up with a rocket up your ass
Nappucino
I’ve heard it called a turbo-nap.
I got fired for this! Even though it was my lunch break, I was off the clock, and I have a chronic illness that makes working an 8-10 hour day exhausting, I was fired since I was “setting a bad example for the junior staff”.
Guess who got an EEOC/disability settlement.
Fudge the number slightly and such to protect yourself, but what did you end up getting?
Asking for a friend.
About tree fiddy
Nice
No, I did this every day for years in my 20s. Nothing new, sorry to say.
My luck I wouls try to rest my eyes and wake up tomorrow lol
I didn’t like my old job, but the one thing I really miss was having a full hour for lunch and being located directly next door to a park
I’d go hang my hammock up between a couple trees and set an alarm on my phone to take a nap, it was pretty damn great.
Soooooo…. Who took the picture?
It’s a Twitch stream. passive income.
Gotta hustle, can’t stop grinding
I wish break rooms with sleeping facilities were more common. A quick nap would be so much more helpful than a gallon of coffee.
This is actually legally mandated in Sweden for all workplaces with more than 50 employees - there must be a room present with some kind of affordance for lying rest. It must also be possible to darken the room completely. Its stated purpose is to facilitate temporary rest for workers.
a friend interned at a FANG company, fell asleep in one of the noise isolation pod chairs in the hall and missed most of a day.
he still got hired after his internship lol.
not being so overworked would be nicer
Unfortunately we all know what they would actually be used for.
Also a great way to decompress on a lunch break
Sounds to me like we need another room.
It’s a public facility for employees so I’m sure most people wouldn’t try.
It’s not a bad idea. In Romania and France I’ve seen beds in relax rooms, or unfoldable couches. They were quite a hit with employees taking a nap.
Getting raises?
Yeah but every good thing is used for some bad purposes too
That shouldn’t stop people from implementing or putting good stuff in the right places
Having some beds in a break room would be great for the corporate people
No no, you can’t have any wealth afforded to the working class, that’s communism /s
For anyone who thinks this seriously go read The Gospel of Wealth and don’t @ me.
What if you drool a lot? asking for a friend
Just bring your own pillow
This is some “battered employee” type shit to say.
Get a load of the guy who has never heard of siestas
A siesta is a multi hour thing though and those people work mornings and evenings. So the total work day is very long. It’s mainly because during the day it was too hot to work.
All David_Eight was alluding to was that my employer isn’t the best. Why the hate?
Probably forgot to take their siesta.
Get a load of the guy who thinks saying get a load of the guy is hate
I think they were probably talking about the downvotes XD
I’ve found a 20-minute nap to be game changing, no matter your occupation or love for your job. It just works.
I genuinely don’t understand how people can nap during a 20 minute break. I need two hours just to consider falling asleep. Unless I’m trying to stay alert, at which point I’ll crash immediately, but only as long as I don’t actively try to lie down and sleep.
I don’t trust anybody who can shut down on command to not be an infiltrated cyborg.
Try being permanently exhausted. Ever since I had mono and COVID in 2020 I basically fall asleep the moment I touch my bed. But unfortunately I also need that nap almost every day.
I was a flight attendant in my early 20s. I had no set schedule and often worked really early or really late paired with multiple takeoffs and landings made sleeping on command a necessity. I can usually fall asleep within 10-15 minutes. Faster with airplane engine noise.
I’ve heard the same from a lot of ex-military folks.
My personal experience is if you try to nap every afternoon consistently at the same time, your body gets used to the schedule which allows you to get to sleep faster.
So why doesn’t that work for sleeping at night
It does. Going to bed at the same time every night and waking up at the same time every day helps you fall asleep faster and sleep better.
If I’m really exhausted and feel like I’m gonna die but still have to work, I’ve found that a 15-minute nap is amazing for “taking the edge off” so I can become functional again. If I’m stressed enough I can even have some lucid dreaming happen, or awareness of my surroundings even tho I’m asleep (like sleep paralysis) which is almost as fun. Under normal circumstances, yeah it’s hard to nap in under 20 minutes but I bet it’d become easier if I made it a habit.
You don’t have to be fully asleep for a nap to be restorative. Even if you just lay there with your thoughts (NOT YOUR PHONE!) for 15-30 minutes it can be very beneficial.
My Japanese friends can all tap out and rejoin with what seems like on-demand sleep in any position or location for as short as a three minute window to nap. It’s like some form of advanced meditation or self-hypnosis. I don’t get it and I’m so jealous.
I did it all the time working nights. Just close your eyes and konk out. But set an alarm.
See, that I can do just fine. I haven’t heard an alarm clock in decades. Even if I have to wake up at like 4 AM for an early flight I will typically just wake up 30 minutes earlier and check the time. I still set an alarm just in case, but I can just… wake up at the same hour every day naturally (even before sunrise) and fairly reliably early at unusual times.
But falling asleep on command? That’s science fiction.
When I worked nights I actually ended up having to create some buffer time before falling asleep. Otherwise it was all work-related nightmares every time, all the time. Sure, I was working from home as well, so people who commute back from their night jobs may get that for free, but still.
I got really good at it in college, since I worked the morning shift at FedEx from 2-8, then had classes all day. If I didn’t develop the ability to get a nap in between classes I’d never have been able to pay attention. Can’t do it anymore though - it might’ve been that I was just exhausted enough back then to sleep on command, or maybe it’s just easier when you’re young.
I don’t know why, but if I’m sleepy I can fall asleep in a few minutes, and will automatically wake up in either 15 minutes or an hour. I went on a long road trip with a friend, and that freaked him out 🙂. Maybe I’m a cyborg and don’t even know it 🤖.
Maybe that’s something to work on and consider why you struggle to sleep. Given sleep is so important in life, maybe you’d feel some substantial improvements all round with better sleep?
Struggling to nap and struggling to sleep are two very different things. I have no problem sleeping, but I would never be able to muster a nap during a break at work, even if I had access to my own bedroom.
The image is of a health care worker. The missing context is this. It’s common practice for unused (not patient) rooms with recliners and such to be used for naps during breaks. Doctors have designated sleeping rooms they can use whenever, lunch or not. Nurses do not, so they get creative, even going so far as using equipment storage rooms if there’s a recliner in there, but can only sleep during their designated lunch break time.
This staff person appears to have a setup for napping in their car.
I feel called out, this is literally what I do during my lunch break with a camper bed set up in the back. I skip eating lunch altogether because a nap is more energizing than some food
I lay down and sleep in a Smart Car during lunch. I am not short just very tired.
I would but my hungry ass needs food
Hell no. I’d eat at my desk our out my tool pouch, whatever to catch that sweet nap. 20-minutes down is a game changer, no matter your job.
Yeahim 33 and i do this even if I have to sleep on the ground somewhere. I also have a bed in my car for the same reason. I feel amazing after 15 minutes
Back when I was working at Dell (sales 🤮), I would do this almost every day! Luckily back then, we had hour long lunches so I could eat and then go to my car for a nap.
