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Half of IT Workers Sleep on the Job
Stony Stevenson writes "According to a new online survey by Harris Interactive, more than half of IT workers say they've fallen asleep at work, while nearly half of techies also are apparently in the mood for love. Forty-seven percent of tech pros admit they've kissed a co-worker, according to the online survey of 5,700 U.S. workers, including 163 techies.
The survey didn't indicate if those work taboos were committed by the same respondents, but in both cases, men were more likely to admit doing both. Forty-nine percent of male techies say they've fallen asleep at work, while only 35 percent of women admitted doing so."
er, huh, whu? I'm sorry, were you saying something?
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Maybe those napping techs are just channeling their inner Ralph Wiggum in preparation for "Talk Like a Pirate Day".
We're counting brain-dead as "asleep", right?
I will never live for sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Seems like a dangerous combination.
Might explain all the buggy sotware, which I always attributed to too much coffee...
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Ok, let's just stop horsing around.
Maybe they just dreamed they were kissing a co-worker.
"and when I woke up my mouse was all wet..."
Sigs are for losers.
You ask a bunch of geeks if they've kissed a co-worker...and no surprise, over half of them have! Of course, 57% of us are also blackbelts and monster-truck drivers in our spare time. The girls we supposedly kissed? Yeah, they're totally hot. But they live in Idaho, so you wouldn't know them.
THL phish sticks
That means... I really don't want to fall asleep around other men at work?
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
I once sent a kissing emoticon to an employee who I believed to be female; does that count for anything?
Clearly this was a type-o. The correct statistic is that 47% of IT guys had a dream at work in which they kissed a co-worker.
Of those 47%, 15% admitted they didn't even know the name of the person who they kissed in their dream because they have never spoken a word to the member of the opposite sex. (with the exception of their mother)
25% admitted that they gotten close enough to see the secretaries name tag.
Finally, 60% admitted that they thought kissing the new company servers counted as kissing a co-worker.
sigs... don't talk to me about sigs....
Thanks for reminding me - we're out of vodka and rum at the office. Can you pick some up on the way in? And maybe some ice?
Actually, 35% of females have fallen asleep during the job.
And there the IT guy gets his chance.
God spoke to me.
Do you realise that unlike most of slashdotters, your boss expects you to alt-tab out of excel and into a pornsite when s/he is around?
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Thursday, August 2, 2007, 11:08am ET
CPAP Hooray
I have sleep apnea! Wooooo! High-five.
For a while now Elaine's been complaining about my snoring, and I believed her that I snore, but I never knew how bad it was. There'd be times in the middle of the night where she'd shove me in frustration and I'm like, "What! How could I be snoring, I've been lying here awake!" which was of course total B.S. I told her to record me one night so I could hear for myself, which she avoided for a while, but finally did using our camera in video mode. I finally learned why our bedroom furniture is always in different places in the morning and why a team of confused seismologists is always wandering around our block. And that I look cute when I'm sleeping.
So off I went to spend a night at a sleep clinic to find out if I have the same thing that both my dad has and my brother have (being that apnea can be genetic, it was almost a foregone conclusion). Good thing I have a bemused curiosity about things like this, like the "collection" room when I went to make sure my "equipment" wasn't "shooting blanks" so I could have "money-sucking kids that won't give you a moment's peace and will draw on your walls and by the way, we'll have TWO AT A TIME which'll make life hell so GOOD LUCK."
Except there wasn't any porn! Only a TV with just network channels so I was forced to watch "So You Think You Can Be Smarter Than a Fifth Grader Who Forgets the Lyrics or No Deal: Fiji". Shows like this are why Elaine is grateful for Pay-per-view and Netflix during the summer. At least it helped put me to sleep so the guys in white coats could start their study. Until they woke me up at 2am and said COULD YOU NOT SNORE SO LOUD YOU'RE WAKING UP THE OTHER SNORING PATIENTS.
When I went in to see the doctor to get my results, I was already resigned to the fact that I might need to get the same surgery that my brother did, which fixed his problem. But the guy said, "your apnea is so bad, surgery wouldn't help." All right! I dodged THAT bullet. Apparently I had short breathing stoppages fifty-two times in an hour. The normal rate is about three.
So at home, I'm now trying to wear a CPAP mask to bed to help me breathe better, stop snoring and get more restful sleep. (I get "CPAP" and "pap smear" confused, I don't even know what "pap smear" is but I know I don't want it on my face) And it's been tough so far. It's too hot and humid these days to be wearing a large mask on your face all night, especially one that needs to be tight enough so there's no air leaks, and that's blowing air at you so hard you feel like you're sky diving (or: think Jackie Chan, Operation Condor, wind tunnel). But I'm trying. Like with everything, I know I'll get used to it eventually.
At least Elaine gets to fulfill her lifelong dream of sleeping with Darth Vader. C'mon girls, admit it, I know there's plenty of you out there.
Informatus Technologicus
It's not sleeping. It's relaxen unt watchen das blinken lights.
"One of the most tediously boring things I've ever had to do was to write Java GUI code."
Well, I guess that explains why *using* java GUI applications is one of the most tediously boring tasks one can ever perform.
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My husband has sleep apnea. When he went to the sleep clinic they marked him as a 3+ on a scal eout of 3 for level of snoring.
It's only since we started watching House that he realised what the face mask really looks like. What he doesn't appreaciate/experience is the jet of cold/sweaty air being blown in his face/do the back of his neck all night.
We use the air condition for maybe 35% of the year because I need a blanket all year around to act as a wind break and to hide under.
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
On slashdot? You bet your ass it counts for something, most posters haven't done half that!
ResidntGeek
Didn't you get the memo? Sleeping transvestites are all the rage in the office these days.
what is this thing you call "kissing"... I don't remember that being covered in my CS course (must have been that lecture I slept through after drinking all night in the computer lab while trying to run "man woman" command
Do whet they used to do with the people who would oversee production of nitroglycerin - give him a stool with two legs.
or is that spelled unix?
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
I ran the numbers myself and yes, it is over half. Here, open this file and see for yourself:
Attached: ITworkerData.xls [Filetype: Excel 2007]
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