sleeping @ work

[ABSOLUT CHARVEL]

Ten things to say if being caught sleeping at your desk


10. "They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen."

9. "This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time
management course you sent me to!"

8. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the Whiteout. You probably got here
just in time."

7. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and
envisioning a new business strategy."

6. "I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."

5. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related
stress. Are you discriminatory toward people who practice Yoga?"

4. "Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out how to
handle that big accounting problem."

3. "Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards when you
put your ear down real close?"

2. "Who put decaf in the wrong pot?!?"

AND THE NUMBER ONE best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your
desk.......

1. Raise your head slowly and say,

"...in Jesus name, Amen."

[wilkinsi]

usually i go to the back of the call centre where there's a rest area, and people don't disturb me as they know i don't react too well to wake up calls. i guess they'd get quite an earbashing, something to do with the sheer number of overtime hours i work.

[VitaminG]

so you sleep on the job when they're paying you regularly time, and make up for it by working overtime? What a rort!

[wilkinsi]

no, i take a lunch break half-way through a double shift. work 9am-3pm, then 4pm-11pm.

[UFORocks]

Yeah, when I find one of my staff sleeping on the job I send them home for the rest of the day without pay, and require them to to take next day off to recover from the illness thats caused them to sleep when they're being paid to work.

Losing 1/2 a days pay and a whole day of vacation/sick time, (whichever is lower), is often enough to remedy the issue thats causing them to sleep at work.

[wilkinsi]

nothing wrong with using one's lunch break as nap time, especially when working 14 hours a day all weekend on top of my usual shifts during the week. and should anyone come over giving me grief, i'd be only too eager to put them back in their place.

[lerxstcat]

nothing wrong with using one's lunch break as nap time, especially when working 14 hours a day all weekend on top of my usual shifts during the week. and should anyone come over giving me grief, i'd be only too eager to put them back in their place.

ON your lunch break, true. If you oversleep your lunchbreak, could be a whole different story. Also, I guess you must have a union, because in most places if your superior was giving you grief about sleeping and you fired back verbally, you would be terminated for insubordination regardless of the initial problem. Yelling at the boss is usually a bad idea,

[Big D]

I sometimes take a 15-20 minute snooze in the mid-afternoon and I'm WAY more productive when I do. Naps are good, employers should be smarter about this.

[wilkinsi]

+1.

[Szostak]

I work in a freezer, so it's easy to sleep, only problem is... it's not fun waking up with your face stuck to a wall.

[wilkinsi]

just imagine that.