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."

zzzz......

[MaineCoon]

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

Maybe ...

[WinkyN]

Maybe those napping techs are just channeling their inner Ralph Wiggum in preparation for "Talk Like a Pirate Day".

Re:zzzz......

[Nefarious Wheel]

Wake me up when the log gets to 100 comments or so zzzzzzzzzz

And 95% of management...

[jwiegley]

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

Bored and horny...

[Progman3K]

Seems like a dangerous combination.
Might explain all the buggy sotware, which I always attributed to too much coffee...

Re: BLUCHER !

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, let's just stop horsing around.

Re:zzzz......

[phantomfive]

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?

Perhaps the two are the same

[mpickut]

Maybe they just dreamed they were kissing a co-worker.

"and when I woke up my mouse was all wet..."

Sooooo....you ask a bunch of geeks

[gandhi_2]

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.

ahhh.. statistics...

[RuBLed]

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...

Re:zzzz......

[__aaclcg7560]

That strange noise from the PC underneath the desk wasn't a worn out fan. :P

So, if more men kissed at work than women...

[Junta]

That means... I really don't want to fall asleep around other men at work?

Re:zzzz......

[RuBLed]

setting threshold to +3

Re:I kissed someone at work

[Anonymous Coward]

I once sent a kissing emoticon to an employee who I believed to be female; does that count for anything?

Re:in your dreams

[weirdcrashingnoises]

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.

Re:Bored and horny...

[tomhudson]

>"Might explain all the buggy sotware, which I always attributed to too much coffee..."

Well, one way to reduce the bug count is to fire the 51% who AREN'T sleeping on the job - they're obviously the ones writing the buggy code!

Re:There's always beer in the fridge.

[tomhudson]

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?

Re:zzzz......

[SatanicPuppy]

They got sleeping bags? Pussies.

I can't imagine an "I slept at work" scenario in my job that didn't involve obscene overtime and after hours work. Where the hell would you find time? Where the hell do people get these JOBS?

Re:in your dreams

[CrazyJim1]

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

And there the IT guy gets his chance.

Re:Sooooo....you ask a bunch of geeks

[nomadic]

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.

Re:zzzz......

[driftingwalrus]

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

Re:Working for a pr0n company & Powernapping

[megaditto]

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?

Re:zzzz......

[Frosty Piss]

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.

Re:zzzz......

[Hoi Polloi]

I thought the Seinfeld episode where George turns his desk into a bed was inspirational.

Re:Sounds like techies aren't getting enough sleep

[HaloZero]

[ Posted from Alien Loves Predator [alienlovespredator.com] ]

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.

Lights

[Hemogoblin]

It's not sleeping. It's relaxen unt watchen das blinken lights.

Re:I Believe It

[hobo sapiens]

"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.

Re:Sounds like techies aren't getting enough sleep

[Macgrrl]

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.

Re:I kissed someone at work

[ResidntGeek]

On slashdot? You bet your ass it counts for something, most posters haven't done half that!

Re:So, if more men kissed at work than women...

[that_itch_kid]

It's either that, or it's the same women going for multiple guys... What I find hilarious is all the comments bagging out men, claiming x% of them lie on surveys and how its increased that number...but effectively, the higher the percentage of men kissers, the more credible the men seem...

Re:zzzz......

[Torvaun]

No, it means that 47% of IT workers consider LCD monitors to be coworkers.

Re:zzzz......

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Lies, damned lies, and Slashdot statistics

[l0b0]

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

tech+kissing=crimes against nature

[marxzed]

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

Re:zzzz......

[StarfishOne]

Male coworker.. female office manager... Ross? Moss? Is that you? :D

(reference hint [wikipedia.org])

Re:Not always due to laziness or lack of work...

[DaveCar]

Do whet they used to do with the people who would oversee production of nitroglycerin - give him a stool with two legs.

Re:zzzz......

[ubrgeek]

When I was a kid, we had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to kiss a co-worker.

Re:Sooooo....you ask a bunch of geeks

[lukas84]

A mail order bride on russia with a 45 year old guy makes you creepy, not cool.

simple explanation

[BitterAndDrunk]

They left out eunuchs programmers.

or is that spelled unix?

Re:Lies, damned lies, and Slashdot statistics

[FatAlb3rt]

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]

Re:The IT Crowd

[Anonymous Coward]

Quick, someone dial 01189998819991197253!

Re:zzzz......

[TheRaven64]

Try typing 'google' into Google and see...