Are we all doing this now, because I’m exhausted by noon everyday. (TikTok screencap)
I used to work at a bank and you get a 30 min lunch and 2x 15 breaks.
I made a deal with my team to let me take a 1 hour lunch so I can spend 5 minutes eating and 55 minutes sleeping.
After moving to Taiwan, the lunch sleeping culture is extremely strong. In school, call students are required to nap. This culture translates to work. From corporate America to Blue collar workers, everyone takes a nap at lunch.
I used to do this at a previous job. The Break was 30 minutes. I once slept for more than 2 hours. Nobody noticed.
I do nap in my Breaks too. I think the world is getting more and more tiring…
Can confirm: life is getting more exhausting.
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.
Where I live its minimum 45min paid lunchtime.
But usually it’s 1h-1h30-2h. Which can be sort of exhausting in the other way. Don’t get me wrong, it’s super, but 2h? You’re like supposed to catch that up and stay later. Legally or not, that’s how the system is here in France.
That’s why work from home (or 1 day in the office to meet up for a long lunch which actually makes sense) is soo good, I can skip lunch if I’m not into the mood, or eat whenever I want.
You don’t agree? Go get drunk during your lunch break.
Bold assumption that I wasn’t doing this already.
My last week at one of my jobs I was just drinking at my desk
I worked a retail job many years ago where store management even told employee they couldn’t leave the building during their 30 minute break since “there wasn’t enough time and you’d be late coming back.”
The companies legal department set the record straight on that one when they caught wine of it but I’m pretty sure there were never any consequences for the management.
I love naps. I used to nap in the office. Couch, beanbag chair, wherever. Now I work from home and grab a nap every other day. Fucking love it.
Only every other day? You gotta pump those numbers up.
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.
Wow. Glad you made out at least.
About tree fiddy
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 used to do desktop support for a hospital and at one point we were using an empty suite for storing hardware during a PC refresh so I had a key for it. There was still furniture in there so I also used it as my office when I wasn’t running around. It was really nice because there was a couch I could nap on and no one ever went in there so it was quiet. My boss didn’t care because he could always reach me on my cell.
If I take one nap my circadian rhythm will be fucked forever.
After a certain age, waking up from a nap feels like being a malnourished bear slowly crawling out of your winter den on shaking legs and a confused, lethargic mind that only wants berries.
That car looks comfy as hell ngl
This is me working from home. My one hour lunch is just my one hour nap, if you quickly drink coffee before the nap, you wake up with a rocket up your ass
Nappucino
I’ve heard it called a turbo-nap.
That’s a nice one
Power nap is what I call them
I also WFH but still go out to my van during lunch. Mostly to work on small projects.
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.
Every response to this seems like its implying sex. But I’m reading it as forced longer hours at work since there is bedding avaliable.
Sounds to me like we need another room.
Also a great way to decompress on a lunch break
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.
Getting raises?
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
a friend interned at a FANG company, fell asleep in one of the noise isolation pod chairs in the hall and missed most of a day.
he still got hired after his internship lol.
This is actually legally mandated in Sweden for all workplaces with more than 50 employees - there must be a room present with some kind of affordance for lying rest. It must also be possible to darken the room completely. Its stated purpose is to facilitate temporary rest for workers.
What if you drool a lot? asking for a friend
Just bring your own pillow
not being so overworked would be nicer
No no, you can’t have any wealth afforded to the working class, that’s communism /s
For anyone who thinks this seriously go read The Gospel of Wealth and don’t @ me.
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?
Probably forgot to take their siesta.
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
Then why reply to me? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Because you can’t really respond to a downvote.
A siesta is a multi hour thing though and those people work mornings and evenings. So the total work day is very long. It’s mainly because during the day it was too hot to work.
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.
Interesting. I work 10 hour shifts 4 days a week with a 30 minute unpaid break, so my schedule is 8am to 630pm, and am required to clock out from 1:30-2p. I leave my house at 7:05am and get home around 720pm. My salaried boss takes a 1 hour break and works from 745a to 345p five days a week. I MUST take my break at 130 for “liability” reasons. My boss takes his break anywhere from 1145 to 2, and if he waits too late to eat he just skips it and leaves early. I wish the lunch break was paid, even those stupid 30 extra minutes would be a game changer for my “work life balance”.
Generally I agree, but I do carve out a narrow exemption for that particular hourly job, it was in a warehouse so pretty physical, I was on my feet all day, carrying around heavy boxes and such, and with the specific job I had I was often the first one there in the morning and basically always the last to leave, so I really wanted that nap in the middle of the day
Same here from when I was working in the field. If I’m driving, I can count it as working so I go home after 8 hours instead of 9 or 8.5 or whatever.
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.
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.
Only way I know to make my body actually cooperate with sleep.
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.
If I’m really exhausted and feel like I’m gonna die but still have to work, I’ve found that a 15-minute nap is amazing for “taking the edge off” so I can become functional again. If I’m stressed enough I can even have some lucid dreaming happen, or awareness of my surroundings even tho I’m asleep (like sleep paralysis) which is almost as fun. Under normal circumstances, yeah it’s hard to nap in under 20 minutes but I bet it’d become easier if I made it a habit.
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.
Try being permanently exhausted. Ever since I had mono and COVID in 2020 I basically fall asleep the moment I touch my bed. But unfortunately I also need that nap almost every day.
Sorry to hear that. It genuinely sucks.
My Japanese friends can all tap out and rejoin with what seems like on-demand sleep in any position or location for as short as a three minute window to nap. It’s like some form of advanced meditation or self-hypnosis. I don’t get it and I’m so jealous.
I don’t know why, but if I’m sleepy I can fall asleep in a few minutes, and will automatically wake up in either 15 minutes or an hour. I went on a long road trip with a friend, and that freaked him out 🙂. Maybe I’m a cyborg and don’t even know it 🤖.
Maybe that’s something to work on and consider why you struggle to sleep. Given sleep is so important in life, maybe you’d feel some substantial improvements all round with better sleep?
Struggling to nap and struggling to sleep are two very different things. I have no problem sleeping, but I would never be able to muster a nap during a break at work, even if I had access to my own bedroom.
I did it all the time working nights. Just close your eyes and konk out. But set an alarm.
See, that I can do just fine. I haven’t heard an alarm clock in decades. Even if I have to wake up at like 4 AM for an early flight I will typically just wake up 30 minutes earlier and check the time. I still set an alarm just in case, but I can just… wake up at the same hour every day naturally (even before sunrise) and fairly reliably early at unusual times.
But falling asleep on command? That’s science fiction.
When I worked nights I actually ended up having to create some buffer time before falling asleep. Otherwise it was all work-related nightmares every time, all the time. Sure, I was working from home as well, so people who commute back from their night jobs may get that for free, but still.
You have Hyperactive-type ADHD and Anxiety. (Possibly)
So mote it be. (Maybe)
Awkwardly gestures prophetically.
Man, to think some people waste decades studying to make that determination. We really could be disrupting this whole medicine thing. Maybe get some automated model to pass these things out fast. I don’t see what could go wrong.
In this case, it’s just me having a ‘Spider-Man meme’ moment with your comment and being excessively cavalier/silly in my response.
Medical diagnosis’ should not come from anonymous people on the internet. I could be a dog, for crying out loud.
I got really good at it in college, since I worked the morning shift at FedEx from 2-8, then had classes all day. If I didn’t develop the ability to get a nap in between classes I’d never have been able to pay attention. Can’t do it anymore though - it might’ve been that I was just exhausted enough back then to sleep on command, or maybe it’s just easier when you’re young.
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?
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