Just learn to sleep sitting upright.

I'll go test that right now.

Maybe there is an app to wake you up when people are approaching.

there should be one.

Well... You know I do have a pretty good eye for color! ;)

We have a guy in the plant that can nap standing upright. He puts his hand out so when a box goes by he can feel it and wake up to stack it on the skid. He has been here forever and already announced that he is retiring come the end of year, so my boss isn't is letting it go. I have to say that it takes talent to sleep stand, I think his low center of gravity helps him to not fall over in combination with his back brace.

One of my wife's friends would fall asleep in her bean bag chair with a drink in her hand. She would wake up hours later and the ice was melted but the drink was still in her hand and she had not spilled a drop.

Lunch is over and being full is not helping things.

Started at the company I work for now right out of college in the machine shop on night shift. Day shift machinist ran the same machine all the time. Night shift machinist ran the hot jobs so you got to move around a lot and run all the different machines.

One of the jobs was on an automatic lathe with about a 5 minute cycle time, then you had to change parts. The last operation was a tap that made threads. When the tap was deep enough the lathe would reverse the spindle with a big clunk to back the tap out. I slept in a chair leaned back balanced on the back two legs. The clunk of the tap backing out would wake me up and I would be up and ready to change parts by the time the machine finished.

The night shift supervisor watched me do this just waiting for me to sleep too long so he could yell at me. He LOVED yelling a people. After over an hour he finally gave up, shook his head, and walked off. Learned this by watching a guy that mostly ran the bigger machines with 15-20 minute cycle times.

There used to be a rule in the company rulebook that you could be fired if you got caught sitting on the tank of the toilet. A guy was sitting on the tank with his feet on the lid so you couldn't see them under the stall and sleeping. One day he fell off and broke his arm, hence the rule.

The former owner of the company here would often close the door to his office. He would take the pillow out from behind the couch and lay down and take a nap.

Several time guys would set up places to sleep, but they always got caught.

A couple of guys on day shift took turns clocking each other in and out, and still ended up getting caught.

One night after clocking out for lunch at 2am I went out and ate my lunch on a bench out side. The weather was very nice. Woke up when the 4:30 break bell went off. Went back in, clocked in and went back to work. Came in early and stayed late the next few days to make up my time and never heard anything about it.

Thats the one problem with working from home... Far too tempting to sit in the recliner to work and just end up napping.... ;)

The difference there is the word "owner".

Yep.

He would sometimes say that if he wanted to he could go lock the door and not come back. Everything was paid for, he does not need any more money. He came to work because he enjoyed it. In his own words he took early retirement at age 92.

Smart man. Get out when its not fun anymore.

Yea, he retired from the Army Air Corps after WW2.
He retired from the FAA in the 70s. He has a 3 digit FAA employee number.
He was in the Air Force Reserve during the Korean war and worked as an C-47 instructor. His wife was afraid he would have to go to Korea for the war. She made him get out before he could retire so he did not triple dip the retirement.
He started this company in 1947 as his hobby.

good luck doing that today.

I've been working from home for gosh 4 years now. Napping, running errands, etc. may sound attractive, but the tendency is that since you don't get interrupted as much, and don't have that bug in your ear to leave work and go home. What happens is you end up missing lunch and/or working well past quitting time for the day.

Evening Y'all.
I have developed an very unsafe habit of sleeping when Beth is talking to me. It kinda ticks her off.

Yes that will get you killed real fast.