Are we all doing this now, because I’m exhausted by noon everyday. (TikTok screencap)
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.
Nice
Fudge the number slightly and such to protect yourself, but what did you end up getting?
Asking for a friend.
About tree fiddy
We settled for wages at my previous salary for the time I was unemployed, the bonus I would have received, and the stock I was to be awarded literally the day after they terminated me. We think the latter two were the real drivers for my termination.
I wish break rooms with sleeping facilities were more common. A quick nap would be so much more helpful than a gallon of coffee.
Unfortunately we all know what they would actually be used for.
Sounds to me like we need another room.
Also a great way to decompress on a lunch break
Getting raises?
This is some "battered employee" type shit to say.
Get a load of the guy who has never heard of siestas
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
I used to do desktop support for a hospital and at one point we were using an empty suite for storing hardware during a PC refresh so I had a key for it. There was still furniture in there so I also used it as my office when I wasn't running around. It was really nice because there was a couch I could nap on and no one ever went in there so it was quiet. My boss didn't care because he could always reach me on my cell.
Soooooo…. Who took the picture?
It's a Twitch stream. passive income.
Gotta hustle, can't stop grinding
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 would but my hungry ass needs food
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
This makes me miss nap time at preschool. 
I do nap in my Breaks too. I think the world is getting more and more tiring..
I used to do this at a previous job. The Break was 30 minutes. I once slept for more than 2 hours. Nobody noticed.
I lay down and sleep in a Smart Car during lunch. I am not short just very tired.
If I take one nap my circadian rhythm will be fucked forever.
After a certain age, waking up from a nap feels like being a malnourished bear slowly crawling out of your winter den on shaking legs and a confused, lethargic mind that only wants berries.
On night shift, I'd eat for half and sleep for half of my break. Worked out pretty good, 30 mins to eat and 30 min nap.
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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.
I used to work at a bank and you get a 30 min lunch and 2x 15 breaks.
I made a deal with my team to let me take a 1 hour lunch so I can spend 5 minutes eating and 55 minutes sleeping.
After moving to Taiwan, the lunch sleeping culture is extremely strong. In school, call students are required to nap. This culture translates to work. From corporate America to Blue collar workers, everyone takes a nap at lunch.
This is very much my current set up. Glad to see I’m not the only one. There are literally dozens of us.
That car looks comfy as hell ngl
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