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Half of IT Workers Sleep on the Job

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the checking-eyelids-for-leaks dept.

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."

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  1. zzzz...... by MaineCoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    er, huh, whu? I'm sorry, were you saying something?

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    1. Re:zzzz...... by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, I was too busy kissing my coworker. Too bad they are all male. I guess we do have a female office manager, she is the only one, but does that mean 47% of my coworkers have kissed her? Ew can we end this conversation already?

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    2. Re:zzzz...... by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

      setting threshold to +3

    3. Re:zzzz...... by driftingwalrus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Clearly this points to an epidemic of sleep-kissing in the workplace!

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    4. Re:zzzz...... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny

      They got sleeping bags? Pussies.

      Exactly. Ingrates. All we get where I work is a box or rocks, and I don't mean those smoothe river rocks, I'm talking those sharp crushed rocks. And we're not allowed to actually sleep n them, we can only look at them.

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    5. Re:zzzz...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You get to use your imagination? Dear lord, I wish we could. All we get is a bunch of angry mole people that poke us with sharp pencils and hot pokers.

  2. And 95% of management... by jwiegley · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're counting brain-dead as "asleep", right?

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  3. Sooooo....you ask a bunch of geeks by gandhi_2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Sooooo....you ask a bunch of geeks by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

      You're all a bunch of liars who should be ashamed of yourselves. I, on the other hand, learned a little something called integrity and truthfulness back when I was going through astonaut training.

  4. ahhh.. statistics... by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forty-seven percent of tech pros admit they've kissed a co-worker

    Forty-nine percent of male techies say they've fallen asleep at work, while only 35 percent of women admitted doing so.
    Here is the explanation: Since only 49% of the men admitted sleeping at work, the 51% must be up to something. 35% of the women admittend sleeping at work, my best guess is that at least 35% ( +/- 5%) of the men who were awake are kissing women who are sleeping. That leaves us with 16% of the male who were awake and not kissing sleeping women. Since 47% admitted kissing a co-worker (we already know that 35% we're males), it means that 12 % of the women we're kissing some of the sleeping men. (This doesn't surprise me). Now we had 16% innocent males and 51% innocent females, if you assume that 5% of the remaining males are on the top management, that roughly equals around 15% of the 51% women being kissed and not admitting it. 10% read slasdot (male obviously) leaving 1% what.. well we still had 36% of the women left...
  5. Re:in your dreams by weirdcrashingnoises · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:in your dreams by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, 35% of females have fallen asleep during the job.

    And there the IT guy gets his chance.

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  7. Re:Working for a pr0n company & Powernapping by megaditto · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  8. Re:Lies, damned lies, and Slashdot statistics by l0b0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't you get the memo? Sleeping transvestites are all the rage in the office these days.