Reply to: Having a kip in the car at lunchtimes

[TheBruce]

you guys are nutters

Yep getting your 8 hours sleep per day is more difficult than it seems, but it is actually extremely important to our long term health too - look it up!

I would snooze for about 20 mins in the loo's - not the most pleasant of places to sleep but got the job done.

[psychocandy]

Call me an unsociable bugger but I'm not one for spending my unpaid lunchtime making polite conversation or talking about work over some dodgy canteen meal.

I like to leave the office for 30 mins or so at least, grab a sarnie, chill in the car, have a kip etc.

Had a bit of a scary experience a few years ago. Was sitting in the car in a quiet corner of big retail park reading paper, eating sarnie.
Noticed a car had pulled up a few cars down and I glanced over and there was a fella in the drivers seat but there was some sort of bobbing movement there also. Then a young ladies head rose out of his lap.

They both turned and looked at me, not in an annoyed, what you looking at sort of way, but in a weird way. Needless to say I started up the car and drove away. (maybe if I'd been into the dogging thing it would have turned out differently !!!) :-)

[shaunbhoy]

The Japanese pop into their local coffee shop and sleep with their head on the table.

Don't they have places, lined with rows of small mattress-filled soundproof pods, where they can just "nip" in for a quick 40 winks?

[alreadypacked]

I was on a project where one of the contractors used to position himself at the back of the meeting room next to the wall for a snooze during the endless kick-off meetings on a large integration project.

He only lasted a week, was that anyone on here?

[doodab]

The Japanese pop into their local coffee shop and sleep with their head on the table.

[aussielong]

Sleeping while awake

painting a pair of realistic looking eyes on your eyelids / glasses and then sleeping in meetings.

Everything I learned about life, I learned from Homer Simpson, basically.

In banks in asia i have seen blokes apparently sleeping in meetings while sitting up straight. Apparently its acceptable and they are not really sleeping but kind of meditating.

I saw this one Thai bloke sitting opposite me and his eyeballs were rolling back like he was high as hell. But as soon as his name was mentioned he was straight "back in the room"

[KentPhilip]

WTF has it got to do with the client? You dont get paid for lunchtime do you?

I have a kip nearly every lunchtime on the client's car park. Hasnt stopped me working for them in nearly 5 years on 3 separate contracts.

"on the client's car park"??
I bet you work up a few times with tyre tread marks across your back

[shaunbhoy]

About 6-7 years ago at the Inland Revenue, some of the permies used to roll in to work just before 10am, play about 20 mins of freecell and then get straight down the canteen and slump in the corner. Sleep for about 2 hours and then have lunch, go upstairs and do a couple of hours freecell/staring at the screen and knock off around 3:30. Not sure if they still do this.

I think they have subsequently lost this trojan work ethic, and let things go a bit.

[Freamon]

About 6-7 years ago at the Inland Revenue, some of the permies used to roll in to work just before 10am, play about 20 mins of freecell and then get straight down the canteen and slump in the corner. Sleep for about 2 hours and then have lunch, go upstairs and do a couple of hours freecell/staring at the screen and knock off around 3:30. Not sure if they still do this.

[shaunbhoy]

WTF has it got to do with the client? You dont get paid for lunchtime do you?

I have a kip nearly every lunchtime on the client's car park. Hasnt stopped me working for them in nearly 5 years on 3 separate contracts.

Yeah but to be fair, McDonalds take much less keen an interest in what the odd Johnny Two Stars might do in his downtime. They are probably just glad you have given up knocking one out in the gents.

[BolshieBastard]

Recently I've been very tired in the mornings, purely as a result of an inability to go to bed on time the night before.

As my contract is in a fairly rural location I've just been driving to a layby next to a field at lunchtimes and having a 30-minute snooze on the back seats - I do have to say it perks me up quite well. Haven't YET been caught by the client.

Still it is a little more civilised than my previous contract, where I was kipping in the well of a shower cubical down in the basement, and the floor of a vacant floor of the office building (a bit dusty that one).

Anyone else have any interesting locations for tactical somnolence (power napping)?

WTF has it got to do with the client? You dont get paid for lunchtime do you?

I have a kip nearly every lunchtime on the client's car park. Hasnt stopped me working for them in nearly 5 years on 3 separate contracts.

[zara_backdog]

I used to have a tactical snooze in the server room when I was a permie

Wasn't it too cold? I use to keep my shopping in the server room at one place I worked at. Mind you the roof was nice for a nap in the summer ....."just nipping to the roof to check the transmitter......." worked every time

[KentPhilip]

Nipping out at lunchtime to hang around remote rural laybys? Isn't that 'dogging'?

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[Halo Jones]

It depends if you cum across some other people having sex.

[Lockhouse]

Four hour commute so I sleep on the train going home. Also the occasional 5 min power nap as a top up in the Gents during the day as well to be honest.