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Sleeping on the job

Most of us come up with our best ideas when we are about to nod off, says a study. So is it time the boss put beds in the workplace?

Top napping tips for work
Announce your nap to your colleagues
Use "equipment" that will make your nap pleasurable
Use an alarm to ensure you wake up on time
Find a secret spot so you will not be awakened prematurely
Have a napping routine

But for the Sleep Council the issue is not how to fit naps into the working day, but how to fit work around sleep.

It says the nine-to-five culture does not fit into the natural sleeping pattern of the human race and Britain's bosses need to introduce a more "sleep friendly" working day.

Well I'm all for this, sounds brilliant, full story here

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nice if you can get away with it , a lad at work was caught asleep and he got a warning , he did it a second time and got the sack , mind you , to be fair to the company he was supposed to be monitoring a multi million pound chemical plant :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:

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As long as you're not driving my bus :Yikes:

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I like the sound of that :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu:

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:tu:

Reminds me of a certain NTL Macintosh Tech Suppport Person (who shall remain nameless) way back in the days of NTL Tech Support in Cleppa Park in Newport.

They had a Tech on the night shift who while walking a customer through some Macintosh problems with configurations etc asked the customer to restart the Macintosh and placed them hold.

Several hours later he awoke from his nap only to find to his bemusement the customer still onhold and said ok then has the Mac restarted and sorry for the delay as he was making some checks from his side and calmly proceeded with the call.

:D

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I sleep all the time on my job... I get the cafe ready to open in Marks and Spencers.. Start at 5.30am.. nap in the back of the cafe till about half 6, do anything that needs doing.. fall asleep again till about 8ish & then go down for breakfast :) No one ever disturbs me, it's quite good :D

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:rofl: class :D :D :D :D

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:D

Never done that though I did fall asleep in a big company meeting once. All my mates were trying to casualy nudge me to wake me up. In the end the speaker stopped and waited for one of them to wake me up. You could have cooked a full english fried breakfast on my face :)

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I remember when I first started work it was a big shock to my system, I had to go to college for day release and it all got too much so I thought I'll just put my head down on the desk and yep fell asleep. I wasn't out for long but long enough for everyone to notice and start laughing :blush:

Always says after my dinner that I'm ready for a little sleep, a power nap for 15 minutes would do me the world of good. I'll suggest it methinks to the powers that be ;)

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My technique is to place a long document on my desk and then rest my forehead on my hands as if in deep concentration. Occasionally the swaying of my head wakes me up! :D

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You're not alone there :D

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I'm gonna try this tomorrow ;)

:tired: No I wasn't nodding I was just looking at the inside of my eyelids

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:disturbd:

You lucky git. :D

Hehe, if I ever tried that I'd be woken up by a loud and annoying woman from Essex shouting in my ear "ello? ELLO? IS THAT VODAFONE????! CAN YOU ERE MEEE?" :rofl:

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:nono: thats no way to talk about Chimaera :D :D :D

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I don't see what's wrong with amphetamines? :p: :D

Generally I don't nod off. I do have an awful habit of zoning out though. I go away to that place inside, until someone asks me a question. It's worse when I'm tired. I have a "problem" with my eye muscles which means that when I'm tired I look like I've had a stroke :D

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Sleeping at work?

It's not for me. Firstly I snore like thunder. The windows shake, plaster falls from the ceiling, everything. I don't think the constant grumbling would make me too popular.

Secondly, I don't think i'd trust everyone. I can just see myself taking a nap and waking up with 1 eyebrow or something. Probably by some guy with cotton wool in his ears. :)

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Napping in the work place? Sorry but I think my work colleague has that one covered judging by the lack of work outputted ;) It's difficult to nap when you hardly sit down before lunch :(

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Some years ago (oh dear - 39!) I used to have a boss who was elderly ie early 60s, same age as I am now :Yikes: Ted had perfected the game of sleeping on the job. He would have a page in front of him and be writing with his head bent down over the page. It was all paper 'n pen in those days of course. However, he could stop writing, nod off for even an hour or more, but leave the pen in place in his hand and poised on the page half way through a word. He must have practiced that for years. If anyone came to his office he would simply write a line or two before looking up. What he wrote was usually total gibberish - but the caller never new that.

Ted was a super boss, just like a dad to some of us juniors. Within our group he fully admitted his "nod-off" technique.

The system did fail a few times. I well remember one day when the "super-boss" called but opened Ted's office door quite quietly. Ted never moved. Obviously too far gone that day. The big boss bent down, looked at Ted's sleeping face - and crept out closing the door quietly. With a big smile he told us not to tell Ted that he had called. Those were the days. Happy days when everyone in the workplace was civilised.

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Oddly enough if I have a nap at work I'm usually more tired when I get home.

But I can - if I so wish have a sleep at work - but then I can do pretty much what I like at work :)

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Man, I thought I was the only one! So, it's called zoning out is it? Mrs T calls it my 'screensaver mode'. There I am, thinking stuff through inside my head, when on the outside my face is frozen in an expression of vague annoyance (apparently!).

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Screensaver mode :D I'd never thought of it like that. I'm not sure what I look like. My dad usually asks if I'm alright so maybe I look ill :erm:

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When I'm in a school that has a civilised hour for lunch I always take a 20 minute nap.It works wonders and I'm ready for the afternoons which are definitely the worst part of any teachers day.

I see this morning they are thinking of opening schools from 8 am to 6 pm.I can see a lot of us taking a nap if that happens. ;)

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Well in Spain etc. They have Siestas in the afternoon. Surely this would be a sensible idea here too.

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I think it would be an excellent idea.

I'm always nodding off, being unfit & fat, cycling in knackers me out so
by about dinner time I'm ready for a kip.
I'm just glad I have a wall of monitors (21"/15" mix) & filing cabinets between me & the boss.