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.
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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 !!!) :-)
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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?
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The Japanese pop into their local coffee shop and sleep with their head on the table.
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Sleeping while awake
Originally posted by CiderEagle View Postpainting 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.
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"
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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostWTF 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.
I bet you work up a few times with tyre tread marks across your back
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Originally posted by Freamon View PostAbout 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.
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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.
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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostWTF 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.
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Originally posted by KentPhilip View PostRecently 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)?
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.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
I used to have a tactical snooze in the server room when I was a permie
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Originally posted by Alf W View PostNipping out at lunchtime to hang around remote rural laybys? Isn't that 'dogging'?Last edited by KentPhilip; 23 June 2011, 22:07.
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Originally posted by doodab View PostIt depends if you cum across some other people having sex.
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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.
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