Are we all doing this now, because I’m exhausted by noon everyday. (TikTok screencap)
I would but my hungry ass needs food
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.
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.
About tree fiddy
Nice
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
No, I did this every day for years in my 20s. Nothing new, sorry to say.
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
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.
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.
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 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 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.
I don’t because I’m fresh and just starting my day when I go into work, but most on night shift do this
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Soooooo…. Who took the picture?
It’s a Twitch stream. passive income.
Gotta hustle, can’t stop grinding
Nah, I just don’t sleep ever
