Most of us have at best a love/hate relationship with our jobs, right?
I mean, we need our jobs to pay our rent and put food on our tables, but, if given the chance, we’d sure rather be doing something else with our valuable time on this planet, right? Sure, there are some who are lucky enough to truly be doing what they love to do, and are getting paid for it…but these people are definitely the minority. Many of us simply hate our jobs.
And the Online Clock team is probably more like most of you than you realize. This is not (yet) a full-time job for us. We work on Online Clock as a labor of love. Sure, the site earns a bit of money each month from advertising, but if you would calculate how much time and effort we put into this project, versus what we get back from it, you’d probably be shaking your head and wondering why we do all this. And by all this I mean: this blog, our Online Clock Facebook Fan Page, our Online Clock Twitter account, and the constant work on making our various Online Clocks work better, as well as constantly working on new kinds of clock and time services to add to our website.
We do all of this on weekends and after work. So, in essence, we have two full-time jobs: our day job, which actually pays the bills (and it’s a cool day job! please don’t fire us) as well as the work we do on Online Clock before and after the day job. Because the people behind the Online Clock site are old punk rockers, we like to think of the website as being very similar to being in a punk rock band: you know you’re probably never going to see huge money from it, so you do it because you love it. And you do it because it’s fun. You do it because you just want to rock. And hopefully, since this is the motivation behind it, some of that spirit comes through to the people who use the website, so they realize, wow, this website that I’m using is really being maintained and operated as a labor of love.
So what’s the meaning of all this job talk?
We wanted to point out that we can commiserate with the people in the videos we are about to show. While scouring YouTube (the best video site on the planet, hands-down) looking for interesting clock/sleep/time-related videos to post on our Facebook Fan Page, we seemed to hit upon a recurring theme: videos showing scenes of people Napping On The Job. (In the same way that we’d earlier collected the funniest snoring videos we could fine.)
If you operate heavy machinery, or work at the Department of Defense, or have anything to do with managing our lives, we recommend that you please don’t sleep on the job. But for the rest of you, when it’s nappy time and you’re feeling in need of catching forty winks, we reserve the right to laugh at you.
So, without further (unsuccessful) attempts to explain ourselves, we now bring you Online Clock’s first collection of the
Funniest Napping At Work Videos
Let’s start by providing you with a useful tutorial on how you can best Sleep On The Job, should you desire to:
Similarly, here are some Advanced Techniques For Sleeping At Work:
Our favorite quote:
I’ve taken to sleeping a lot at work lately. Frankly, it just makes the day go by a loooot faster.
(Boy, that’s the truth, isn’t it?)
This Sleep Safe Tape is a product that you can buy that comes with an adhesive tape with open eyes printed on it. The idea is that, when you plan on taking a nap at work, you simply tape these fake eyes to the outside of your eyelids. The casual observer, upon walking by, will think that your eyes are glued to the computer screen in front of you:
The Sleep Safe Tape provides you with stick-on fake eyes to paste onto your closed eyelids.
Okay, now let’s move on to the actual videos of people being shown while Sleeping On The Job. In most cases, it seems that this typically happens naturally at someone’s place of work: a worker falls asleep, and his or her coworkers discover this and think it’s so funny that they big filming it, probably with their mobile phones, and then end up uploading the video to YouTube.
How embarrassing – and what a way of becoming famous!
Here’s the first video, which shows the typical scenario of an office worker apparently in need of some shut-eye. If you plan on Sleeping On The Job, here’s one obvious tip for you: try not to snore!
Now let’s begin to escalate things a bit, by showing what your co-workers might end up doing to you when they discover you asleep at your workplace. Take a look at all the plastic office cups piled onto this poor worker’s head. We find it difficult to believe that they remain balanced on his head, even while he snores away! (Note the piece of paper even stacked on top of all the cups.)
One more advanced strategy for Sleeping On The Job is finding a suitable hiding place, instead of sleeping right out in the open where everyone can find you. But, as the following video proves, this doesn’t necessary ensure for a successful snooze. The balancing act of cups from the last video has been altered here, using instead a roll of toilet paper which has been balanced upon the sleeper’s head.
Of course, not everyone works in an office. If you work someplace out in the open, where the general public can see you, then we especially recommend that you try real hard not to doze off on the job, as this gas station worker in Coral Gables, Florida apparently did:
Finally, we think it’s especially important not to Fall Asleep On The Job if you work in the public service sector. While doing research for this blog posts, we actually found videos of some police officers and fire fighters who’ve apparently fallen asleep on the job. And why not? Heck, we’re all human. But out of respect for them, we’re refusing to post such videos online. And no, this has nothing to do with us wanting to avoid any potential speeding tickets in the future…uh, really, it doesn’t 
But, since we’re Americans, I guess it’s OK if we show this photo of what appears to be a Buckingham Palace guard taking a dangerous snooze at the tip of his bayonet:
We also found a hilarious video of a prison guard at the infamous Riker’s Island facility in New York who apparently not only Fell Asleep On The Job, but also got caught on video sleeping on the job, accompanied by one of the inmates who poses embarrassingly with her while she’s asleep! It’s interesting to note, for this video, that a second prison guard, a co-worker, is the one who took this video using a mobile phone. And not only did the person who fell asleep get in trouble here; also the prison guard who took the video got into trouble, since you’re apparently not allowed to take a mobile phone inside the prison (it’s one of their policies – even for guards).
So there you have it, Clock Fans, that’s all for our first round-up of the funniest videos we could find on the subject of Sleeping On The Job.
If you know of another video or two that you think deserves to be included in this collection, please just send us a link to it via the comment form below.
We leave you all with the sobering thought that, in this day and age, where just about every mobile phone seems to have a video camera function, you really have it tough, if you plan on catching a nap on the job…so choose your strategies and tactics wisely, in order to make sure that you don’t end up later becoming famous via YouTube and via posts like this one on the Alarm Clock Blog!
Until next time, to those of you reading this at work, we wish you pleasant dreams.
And an absence of cameras.
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