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.
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.
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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.
It's a public facility for employees so I'm sure most people wouldn't try.
It's not a bad idea. In Romania and France I've seen beds in relax rooms, or unfoldable couches. They were quite a hit with employees taking a nap.
Yeah but every good thing is used for some bad purposes too
That shouldn't stop people from implementing or putting good stuff in the right places
Having some beds in a break room would be great for the corporate people
Also a great way to decompress on a lunch break
Getting raises?
What if you drool a lot? asking for a friend
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?
Get a load of the guy who thinks saying get a load of the guy is hate
I think they were probably talking about the downvotes XD
Probably forgot to take their siesta.
I've found a 20-minute nap to be game changing, no matter your occupation or love for your job. It just works.
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.
In my opinion, this is mostly great only for salary folks. As an hourly worker, an hour lunch break means I'm away from home for an extra hour. Also, as someone who travels to many locations, I'd much rather eat on the road than sit down and wait until lunch is over, especially if it's mandatory...
???
Every job I've ever had - had the lunch unpaid. Hourly or Salary you're ass is there a minimum of 8 hours and 30 minutes.
Only difference is if you're there 10 hours. The Hourly guy gets paid extra. The salary man gets told to go fuck himself. "Salary Exempt"
I work in 911 dispatch, so my job kind of falls into some weird exceptions as an essential public safety thing.
Technically I'm considered salaried somehow, but in practice my pay is hourly.
I work 12 hour shifts, and my paycheck reflects how many hours I worked (and however much PTO I used) during that pay period.
Technically, if shit really hits the fan my supervisor could come running into the lunch room and say they need all hands on deck, no more breaks today, and they've eased up on it a bit but for a long time we weren't even supposed to leave campus at all on our breaks so that we'd be available if we were needed, so I guess that's at least part of the reason my breaks are paid.
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.
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.
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 did it all the time working nights. Just close your eyes and konk out. But set an alarm.
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.
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
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.
Soooooo…. Who took the picture?
It's a Twitch stream. passive income.
Gotta hustle, can't stop grinding
I would but my hungry ass needs food
Hell no. I'd eat at my desk our out my tool pouch, whatever to catch that sweet nap. 20-minutes down is a game changer, no matter your job.
This is very much my current set up. Glad to see I’m not the only one. There are literally dozens of us.
I had two jobs in a row where I'd crash in my cot. At one, I kept it in the attic, at the next I had an actual office. Last job was WFH, so I crashed in an actual bed after lunch.
A 20-minute nap is energizing! Very nice.
CAVEAT: For most of us, 20-minutes+ might make you more tired. Clock it on at 20, test for yourself.
If I take one nap my circadian rhythm will be fucked forever.
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 lay down and sleep in a Smart Car during lunch. I am not short just very tired.
Rant time. Lunch breaks are a fucking scam. Hear me out.
We're made to believe that a mandatory 30 minute, unpaid, lunch is somehow a victory for workers rights. Tell me, do you really feel like you're taking a break from work in those 30 minutes? Or are you still thinking about work? Are you still in "work mode"? Well guess what, that's 30 minutes of you thinking about work and not relaxing that they are stealing from you. Your workday isn't 8 hours, it's 8 and a half hours. That 30 minutes isn't really yours, it's not enough time to get anything done. You don't agree? Go get drunk during your lunch break. Oh what's that? You can't because you'll face consequences at work? Well gee, sounds like that time doesn't actually belong to you then if you're not free to do whatever you want.
It used to be a job was 9-5. That's 8 hours. Total. You either had a paid lunch, or you ate on the job. But it was PART of those 8 hours. I don't know about you, but if I'm not getting paid for it, I don't want to be at work a second longer than I have to. I've had a few jobs that let me work through lunch and it was great, I could keep working and eat at my desk and I was out of the door 30 minutes before the rest of my co-workers. Jobs that force me to take a lunch are BS. I don't need 30 minutes to eat a sandwich, and the remaining time is NOT relaxing. I don't get to unwind from work. I am instead filled with rage that I'm just wasting time, not getting paid, in order to uphold the illusion that the company "values our time", when really they're just holding us hostage.
Mandatory, unpaid, "breaks" are just a form of wage theft.
You don’t agree? Go get drunk during your lunch break.
Bold assumption that I wasn't doing this already.
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