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.
About tree fiddy
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.
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…
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 🤖.
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.
My last week at one of my jobs I was just drinking at my desk
I used to work with a dude who started showing up to the office in pajamas and just played foosball in the break room all day once he’d accepted another offer and put in his notice
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.
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.
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 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 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.
I do nap in my Breaks too. I think the world is getting more and more tiring…
Can confirm: life is getting more exhausting.
Yeahim 33 and i do this even if I have to sleep on the ground somewhere. I also have a bed in my car for the same reason. I feel amazing after 15 minutes
I used to do this at a previous job. The Break was 30 minutes. I once slept for more than 2 hours. Nobody noticed.
My luck I wouls try to rest my eyes and wake up tomorrow lol
Gotta set an alarm on your phone
That car looks comfy as hell ngl
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On night shift, I’d eat for half and sleep for half of my break. Worked out pretty good, 30 mins to eat and 30 min nap.
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.
