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Just not a nap guy. Never have been, never will be. If I’ve had a couple beers on a casual Saturday afternoon and feel sluggish going into the night, taking a quick power nap to get some much-needed energy simply turns me into a lethargic piece of shit who might as well commit to watching a movie on HBO Go for the rest of the night before falling asleep at 10:30 p.m.
Therefore, the thought of napping during my work day sounds like the worst possible idea for my productivity. Unfortunately, Ariana Huffington disagrees per an interview she did with “Today” this morning where she claimed that “nap rooms” will replace conference rooms within the next two years.
Via The Huffington Post:
Huffington Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington predicts that nap rooms in offices are going to be “as common as conference rooms” in the next two years.
Huffington’s mission: to eliminate the stigma long associated with sleeping at work. Napping on the job used to “mean [that employees were] not as dedicated, not as hard-working,” she told NBC’s “Today” on Monday.
But in the HuffPost newsroom, “having a nap in the middle of the afternoon is actually a performance-enhancing tool,” she said.
As someone who’s allowed to wear joggers to work and is allotted a few work-from-home days a month, I really can’t fathom a work environment that not only allows napping, but encourages it. If you want to spend twenty minutes of your lunch break having a snooze? Have it while your other try-hard coworkers go to the gym and get some reps in before coming back to the office smelling of sweat. But if I get shushed while walking by a fucking nap room while I’m trying to work on my golf swing next to the break room? Not the office environment I’m looking for.
Besides, there’s bound to be some hookups going down in those things. And everyone knows that inter-office hookups are just downright lazy. .
[via HuffPo]
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Instead of nap rooms, they should just have passive-aggressive panic rooms where you go into a beautiful, comfortable room with nice liquids and you get to sit down in front of a nice HDTV in a leather library chair and watch your life from an outside perspective. It’ll show videos of how a guy just sitting at a desk in silence with a perplexed look on his face as if he just figured out that shit isn’t really going according to his plan and it shows how his company is slashing the health benefits and his retirement fund is dwindling along with his sub market income. Then a loud bell rings and you are escorted out of the nice room by an attractive woman who doesn’t wanna sleep with you at all and then you go back to work for like 4 more decades.
Jesus.
I found this easy to masturbate to.
I don’t think the excuse “I overslept” will go over well twice in a single work day.
I prefer the George Costanza method of putting up a nice little shelf with an alarm clock and a pillow underneath my desk
I disagree, I will now be negotiating nap rooms into my employment contracts from now on.
This is a terrible idea. How is a midday nap going to be “performance enhancing”? Look at Spain, those clowns have siesta everyday and their entire economy is in the shitter.
They have siestas because their shit economy doesn’t allow keeping the office at 60 degrees at all times and it’s hot as fuck and miserable. Don’t hate on the work nap.
On this week’s edition of “You’re Wrong” here’s some graphs and facts and stuff.
1. Barcelona uses the same time zone as Berlin even though it should be in line with London. Their clocks are pretty screwed up so not necessarily the fault of napping.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/30/244995264/spains-been-in-the-wrong-time-zone-for-seven-decades
2. There have been numerous studies done on the cognitive benefits of napping in the middle of the day.
