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is this acceptable behaviour? i don't really think it is but i just did it all the same.
i'm so tired i can't see myself making it to the end of the day to be honest.

― stelfox, Friday, 8 April 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes when I've gone into work despite being ill I've ended up just falling asleep in the kitchen armchair. As I was obviously ill, though, noone really cared; as soon as someone was free, I got a lift home.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

I only ever used to do it when I worked for NY State. I mean, how was I supposed to know that CSI's everywhere would be depending on the quality of my work, years later?

― Adherents of the Repeated Kate (kate), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Meetings are good for this, get a load of people in a tiny warm room and one monotone PowerPoint session.
My eyes start rolling after 2 mins.

― cavern (cavern1), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

The sleepiest time of the day for me is always just after lunch

(now, in other words)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

We are not allowed to sleep at work, it is in our rule book.

I think it is a fair rule, really.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

god i'm so tired/hungover, i'd kill to sleep... but yeah, my coworker and boss wouldn't understant...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

A colleague of mine is sleeping in the office right now. He does it most days, during his lunch break.

I'm eating and reading ilx instead, despite having only 3 hours sleep last night.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

i used to sleep at work regularly in a secluded bathroom stall. 20 minutes is really all you need to rejuvinate you. people waste way more than 20 minutes in any given work day. im wasting at least 20 minutes now on ilx.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

The sugar rush of the cake has worn off. Sleepy-time!

― Adherents of the Repeated Kate (kate), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

circadian rythyms with reference to the sleepy after lunch thing. Apparently the body works on two rythyms, the sun rythym and the slightly weaker moon rythym. When both are in the high cycle you feel awake and allert (why you are more awake at 3 am than at midnight) and you feel drousy when they both hit a low (around 2 pm for most people) add the soporific effects of a big lunch (which uses a lot of the body's energy in digenstion) plus the obligatory friday pint and its ZZ time. apparently (for those who want/need to stay awake) the best thing to do when feeling drowsy is drink a couple of glasses of water, this combats the short term drowsyness much more effectively that cafine, because it is dehydration that is slowing you down (coffee is a dyeretic so will actually make the problem worse).

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

* goes to the water cooler

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Already did that. Didn't help. I want CAKE!!!

― Adherents of the Repeated Kate (kate), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

We all want cake, dear

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

There's tons of cake around today. I've already had two minisnack cakes and a slice of cappuccino cake. Any more and I'd be way over the greedy limit.

OK, it's all PMT, but still.

― Adherents of the Repeated Kate (kate), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

aparently sainsburys are practically giving packets of mini eggs away (the ones by the well known english manufacturer of course).

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

apparently (for those who want/need to stay awake) the best thing to do when feeling drowsy is drink a couple of glasses of water

this really does help, guys. i rely on the water cooler every 15 minutes after lunchtime to keep me awake. a can of coke would just put me to sleep whereas a glass of water rejuvenates me for 15 minutes.

(i average about 5 hours of sleep during week days)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

(at night, that is, not during work)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

the walk to the water cooler also helps. as i have to walk through a gauntlet of cute girls to get there.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

falling aslep a wrok

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

i can't believe nobody bothered to search for that thread on the noize board before they posted here :(

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

exactly!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Hey, what do you know? The water thing is actually working.

(However, one of my bosses is now wearing a Krispy Kreme hat which is making me want CAKE.)

― Adherents of the Repeated Kate (kate), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

water never helps me. maybe because I drink gallons of it all the time anyway. strong black coffee, however, which I almost never drink and which my body still hasn't got used to - I tend to wait til it's cooled down sufficiently to gulp down in one go. cue caffeine high. although uncomfortable, this at least ensures that i'm no longer at risk of collapsing on to the keyboard.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

I should move back onto chocolate covered coffee beans. Most pure caffeine high ever.

― Adherents of the Repeated Kate (kate), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

At least once a week I start passing out around 2. I tried going to the bathroom to sneak a nap but wound up almost knocking the toilet cover off when I leaned back. Having only one loo in the office i would've had some explaining to do. Anyone have any good tips for nodding off at your desk without getting noticed?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

When both are in the high cycle you feel awake and allert (why you are more awake at 3 am than at midnight)

I think you'll find that's propably because the pills have kicked in.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

The office stereo appears to be playing Get Up, Go Insane by Stretch & Vern. This is what happens when you make your employees come in at 8am.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

I have just been handed my first beer of the weekend. This is great :)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

I thought you weren't going to post from work!

I've got nothing do to for the rest of the day. Shall I go to the office bar?

― Adherents of the Repeated Kate (kate), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

I hate all you people.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Wow, you guys have actual water coolers.

There have been times when I've been an inch away from finding an empty conference room to take a power nap, but usually I just drink some coffee or zombify in front of ILX until I feel better.

I have fallen asleep in meetings though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

If it makes you feel any better, in my new office, I can fall asleep, smoke weed, sunbathe in front of floor to ceiling windows directly across from and one floor above John Casablancas modelling school, order pizza, smoke, do coke, and turn the music up loud as fuck, whenever I want.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

still here, still awake - just.

― stelfoxzzzzz, Friday, 8 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I actually often talk to my colleagues by the water cooler. Cause it's right in the middle of the kitchen, but still.

― Adherents of the Repeated Kate (kate), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, just rubbing it in.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I like to perch my head in my hand over a big spreadsheet and look like I'm just putting my all into some number crunching for a good 30 minutes, while I'm actually off in dreamland riding magic carpets into the sleepy time horizon.

Also, there is an "upstairs" here, which is dark and warm and nobody ever goes up there. I'll be like "hey, I'll be back in a minute, I've gotta go dig up an old workers comp claim" and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

stelfox we must meet up! (not tonite maybe)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

compoter make me so sleepy

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i'd be rotten company tonight. next week's good though. woll mail.

― stelfoxzzzzz, Friday, 8 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

downstairs there's a training room (i work for a hospital) where there is a patient bed that i can sleep if i want to, plus that room has skeletons and stuff in it so i get to have cool daymares at the same time.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm back from a thirty minute nap! What did I miss?

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I was just reading an email and the buzz of the huge printer near me hypnotised me. I awoke with my head rolling forward and I think I made a snorting noise just before that. I feel horrible now.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

oh i hate doing that half asleep snorting thing, i've done it on trains in the past and felt really stupid.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Trains are okay - i think people expect it there. Work however...

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

o, if only i had time to fall asleep at work.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

(stet to thread, incidentally. unless he's still up on the roof of our old building, having a kip.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

o, if only i had work to fall asleep at

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Our old building was fantastic: it was designed for the glory days of newspapers, when you needed 1000 employees just to make a 10-page paper. Thanks to modern technologies, there were whole wings abandoned to the dust. At the time we had some insane management -- who thought that everyone being at work for 12 hours a day was the way to Get Things Done -- so I used to have lots of free time, and would nip off to one of these wings for a snooze.

I wouldn't have been caught either, until Grimly Fiendish was recruited to be a model for our advertising campaign (oh yes), and somehow this required him to dangle off the roof while being photographed. He+snapper traipsed up the never-used back stairs, where I was busy cutting Zs and they discovered me. Drat.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

they probably wanted a pic of grimly because of his fab beard, the bastard

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

that is absolutely true. (i had to pretend to be an aeroplane for the ad campaign. don't ask.) i didn't really know stet at the time; however, i have never seen anyone look so shifty :)

x-post: mookie, sorry, it's gone! mrs fiendish forced me to shave it off. leading to the following exchange at work on monday:

senior beardy hack of some repute: "HOY. what have you done with that magnificent beard?"

me: "my girlfriend told me she'd kill me if i didn't remove it."

beardy hack: "ditch the bird. keep the beard."

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

I fold myself into the empty bottom shelf at the end of the compactus in our filing room and pull the rolling shelves shut for 40 winks.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

If my entire night's sleep could be as restful and satisfying as my 20-minute work naps I would be like, so chill.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh, like you're not so chill anyway, tracer hand.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Behind this relaxed and professorial exterior lies the throbbing heart of an animal.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Today after lunch I started to feel kinda sick, so I went downstairs to lie on the couch in the basement. I fell asleep for over an hour. oops!

― ian, Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Didn't sleep last night due to dodgy stomach -- now at work on no sleep at all, finding it hard to thing straight. Any hints, strategies? Can't drink coffee due to stomach. Probably fucked.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 3 September 2010 09:36 (fifteen years ago)

Er, think straight.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 3 September 2010 09:36 (fifteen years ago)

lots of water

― k¸ (darraghmac), Friday, 3 September 2010 09:43 (fifteen years ago)

Go to loo.

Sit in cubicle.

Shut eyes for 5 mins. (If/when you slump, you wake up)

give yourself 2 mins to recover

You will be OK for the rest of the day.

― Mark G, Friday, 3 September 2010 09:51 (fifteen years ago)

Toilet roll dispenser for pillow, should do the trick

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 3 September 2010 10:26 (fifteen years ago)

Not even that.

If you keep yourself up vertical sitting down, and manage to nod, when you go into deep sleep you will more likely lean forward and wake with a start.

You will probably only be out for a minute, but it may well be just enough.

(caveat emptor, obv)

― Mark G, Friday, 3 September 2010 10:34 (fifteen years ago)

You will be woken by your boss violently farting in the cubicle next door, and as the sound echoes over and over in your mind, ripping through the fleeting tranquility of your nap like an angry clown jumping through a painting of heaven, you will know that your life has reached a new low.

― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Friday, 3 September 2010 10:48 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

flatmate got up at 5am for some reason today, made loads of noise. i didn't get back to sleep and now have that awful foggy head, needing to go wake myself up with water on face every 20 minutes. grrr.

6 o clock can't come too soon...

― LocalGarda, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:00 (fourteen years ago)

Slept through alarm, woke up with a start half an hour later.

Boy, though, I feel like I've had a good amount of sleep for once!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:05 (fourteen years ago)

i hate the way every time i stay up beyond, say, 3am to work (ie not having gone out), my body clock decides that IT CANNOT SLEEP MORE THAN AN HOUR. every time i wake up at something stupid like 6am feeling like i've overdosed on black coffee, even if i hadn't had any the night before (and only physically, none of the mental clarity that i actually drink it for). i have no idea why this happens? i never have sleeping issues either.

― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:08 (fourteen years ago)

*otherwise not either

yeah it makes me ridiculously out of it the following day, that day being today

― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:08 (fourteen years ago)

yeah it's weird...i also find it doesn't matter if i start work at 10am, i don't sleep well unless i go to bed by midnight.

― LocalGarda, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:18 (fourteen years ago)

i feel worse if i sleep too much. 4 hours seems to be about right for me, i usually go to bed about 2 then wake up at about 7, then i have a couple of hours reading in the morning.

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:51 (fourteen years ago)

when i had a data entry job i would have this period of time between 3 and 4 in the afternoon where i *really* had trouble staying awake regardless of how much sleep i was getting.

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:53 (fourteen years ago)

yeah it doesn't help that i'm basically seeing out my time here knowing i'm off elsewhere soon. and have f all work to do.

― LocalGarda, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:55 (fourteen years ago)

data entry job was finding the lat/long co-ordinates & address of every hotel in the world after a day it was KILL ME NOW

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 12:01 (fourteen years ago)

i still have all the "shared" spreadsheets in my google docs, thinking about it. bet that info is worth quite a lot.

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 12:02 (fourteen years ago)

*plots evil masterplan*

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 12:02 (fourteen years ago)

i have so little to do it's sort of a joke. i'm planning stories for the day after but frequently the reporter can only file after my shift ends. i think my boss kinda doesn't care and the people the day after don't care if i don't have stuff built as they know it's not my fault. it takes a lot for me to get to the point of thinking "fuck it then i'll just do nothing" but i'm at that point now. #publicsectorwaste

thank god am out of here soon

― LocalGarda, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 14:32 (fourteen years ago)

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