Sleeping at work

[hoyasnaxa]

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Here's an idea that I stole from somewhere, but I can't remember where. You need to have a room with a door that opens in. I did this in a stock room at my old job.

Lie down on the floor with your feet touching the door. Dump out a box of paper clips in front of your head. If someone comes in, the door will wake you (worked especially well for me b/c the door had a loud keypad lock) and you just hop to your knees and begin picking up the paperclips.

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Very good idea, but not if mbillie has a pillow and blanket right next to the clips.

[luckyjimm]

Sleep with your boss

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mbillie,

I'm also a nap expert. I may actually have some sort of mild Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, if that sort of thing can happen in degrees, because my whole life I've dealt with bouts of exhaustion.

The car is good, I've done that a time or three but I have a dumb concern about someone catching me/parking near me/etc. that kind of harshes my nap buzz.

I don't think the bathroom is so dumb. I'm embarrassed to say this but years ago I used to go into the handicapped bathroom (unisex) and lay on the floor and set my phone alarm for a 10-15 minute snooze. I was just so tired I had to recharge and it was the best option.

Here, there are a couple of places I could stow myself away. One is the accountant's office, she's never here. The other, more desirable one is an empty office that has a four desk cube. I have a chair back in the corner where nobody can see me. The only problem is, there's a girl that sits in the office between me and there, so I can really only use it when she's not around otherwise I'd be too obvious.

As for the getting caught = getting fired thing, I don't buy it. You can always just say you have a headache/are sick/something health-related and you just needed to rest your eyes a bit. It makes you look like a dedicated employee, fighting through it instead of going home!

[mbillie1]

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I may actually have some sort of mild Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, if that sort of thing can happen in degrees, because my whole life I've dealt with bouts of exhaustion.

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Wow I definitely have this too I think, I'm seriously tired constantly, no matter what I do, how much I slept, etc.

[tuq]

mbillie,

Well at least I have good company. Seriously, during my annual Palm Desert golf trip every day goes like this: golf, nap, pool time, nap, dinner/bar, nap, after hours suite. Three naps required just to get through the day, most of the others soldier on without needing any (and presumably without the aid of cocaine).

[luckyjimm]

Hmm, could your tiredness be something lack-of-exercise/bad diet related?

[tuq]

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Hmm, could your tiredness be something lack-of-exercise/bad diet related?

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No on the exercise, very possibly on the diet. But my whole life? I think even at my very healthiest I wasn't having this problem.

Also, this country is so retarded with the "nap = lazy" thing. The links/pic that El D posted are pretty much irrefutable evidence as to their value in so many ways (if executed reasonably, of course). But the stigma is far greater than the facts at this point and who knows if we as a society will ever overcome it.

[fifield]

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I may actually have some sort of mild Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, if that sort of thing can happen in degrees, because my whole life I've dealt with bouts of exhaustion.

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Wow I definitely have this too I think, I'm seriously tired constantly, no matter what I do, how much I slept, etc.

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Hey, I used to have this problem, too, would almost fall asleep not just during work, but several times during my typical commute home, too. Went to the doc, got these, problem solved:

Metagenics AM/PM for Men [censored] awesome, won't feel like sleeping during the day at all. /advertisement [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[unspider]

A move a co-worker of mine used to do is just to drive to a nearby park or otherwise large parking lot and then take a nap in the car.

[pirateboy]

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A move a co-worker of mine used to do is just to drive to a nearby park or otherwise large parking lot and then take a nap in the car.

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This sounds eerily like what I used to do.

I'm an advertising sales guy, and sometimes my ex-insane boss would check our residences to see if we were slacking off, so my APT was out of the question.

There was a parking lot around 2 miles away, had tons of trees for shade, and I'd park there and sleep for an hour and then make more calls.

Now, at this office, I'm the only sales guy here, and my bosses are in Phoenix, so I sleep daily. I have a chair that leans back, so I just lean back and doze off. Still hit my numbers, too.