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I used to work at a bank and you get a 30 min lunch and 2x 15 breaks.

I made a deal with my team to let me take a 1 hour lunch so I can spend 5 minutes eating and 55 minutes sleeping.

After moving to Taiwan, the lunch sleeping culture is extremely strong. In school, call students are required to nap. This culture translates to work. From corporate America to Blue collar workers, everyone takes a nap at lunch.

I used to do this at a previous job. The Break was 30 minutes. I once slept for more than 2 hours. Nobody noticed.

I got fired for this! Even though it was my lunch break, I was off the clock, and I have a chronic illness that makes working an 8-10 hour day exhausting, I was fired since I was "setting a bad example for the junior staff".

Guess who got an EEOC/disability settlement.

Rant time. Lunch breaks are a fucking scam. Hear me out.

We're made to believe that a mandatory 30 minute, unpaid, lunch is somehow a victory for workers rights. Tell me, do you really feel like you're taking a break from work in those 30 minutes? Or are you still thinking about work? Are you still in "work mode"? Well guess what, that's 30 minutes of you thinking about work and not relaxing that they are stealing from you. Your workday isn't 8 hours, it's 8 and a half hours. That 30 minutes isn't really yours, it's not enough time to get anything done. You don't agree? Go get drunk during your lunch break. Oh what's that? You can't because you'll face consequences at work? Well gee, sounds like that time doesn't actually belong to you then if you're not free to do whatever you want.

It used to be a job was 9-5. That's 8 hours. Total. You either had a paid lunch, or you ate on the job. But it was PART of those 8 hours. I don't know about you, but if I'm not getting paid for it, I don't want to be at work a second longer than I have to. I've had a few jobs that let me work through lunch and it was great, I could keep working and eat at my desk and I was out of the door 30 minutes before the rest of my co-workers. Jobs that force me to take a lunch are BS. I don't need 30 minutes to eat a sandwich, and the remaining time is NOT relaxing. I don't get to unwind from work. I am instead filled with rage that I'm just wasting time, not getting paid, in order to uphold the illusion that the company "values our time", when really they're just holding us hostage.

Mandatory, unpaid, "breaks" are just a form of wage theft.

I love naps. I used to nap in the office. Couch, beanbag chair, wherever. Now I work from home and grab a nap every other day. Fucking love it.

I wish break rooms with sleeping facilities were more common. A quick nap would be so much more helpful than a gallon of coffee.

I used to work for Comcast at their corporate HQ. One day while walking around waiting for my Blackberry app to finish compiling (this could literally take upwards of an hour because every module incorporated had to be digitally signed by a different RIM server - sometimes it would never finish at all and I would go home) I discovered a sick room with a very comfortable long couch. I started taking 30 minute naps here and my post-lunch productivity skyrocketed. I made the mistake of mentioning this room to one of the Infosys employees and that was the end of my naps. That room was permanently occupied from that point on.

I eventually started pulling a George Costanza and sleeping under the desk in my cubicle, hidden by a filing cabinet and my chair with a crocheted blankie draped over it. Corporate hatred of naps is just so fucking stupid and counterproductive.

I do nap in my Breaks too. I think the world is getting more and more tiring..

I didn't like my old job, but the one thing I really miss was having a full hour for lunch and being located directly next door to a park

I'd go hang my hammock up between a couple trees and set an alarm on my phone to take a nap, it was pretty damn great.

This is me working from home. My one hour lunch is just my one hour nap, if you quickly drink coffee before the nap, you wake up with a rocket up your ass

I genuinely don't understand how people can nap during a 20 minute break. I need two hours just to consider falling asleep. Unless I'm trying to stay alert, at which point I'll crash immediately, but only as long as I don't actively try to lie down and sleep.

I don't trust anybody who can shut down on command to not be an infiltrated cyborg.

If I take one nap my circadian rhythm will be fucked forever.

The image is of a health care worker. The missing context is this. It’s common practice for unused (not patient) rooms with recliners and such to be used for naps during breaks. Doctors have designated sleeping rooms they can use whenever, lunch or not. Nurses do not, so they get creative, even going so far as using equipment storage rooms if there’s a recliner in there, but can only sleep during their designated lunch break time.

This staff person appears to have a setup for napping in their car.

That car looks comfy as hell ngl

Soooooo…. Who took the picture?

I feel called out, this is literally what I do during my lunch break with a camper bed set up in the back. I skip eating lunch altogether because a nap is more energizing than some food

My luck I wouls try to rest my eyes and wake up tomorrow lol