Are you paying each of those kindergarteners $90K per year, and then not getting anything out of it? Is the “busybody” doing all the work that the napping kindergarteners should be doing, as well as his own? Are deadlines not being met?
Because that’s the situation we had here a while back. It took a long time to dismiss the napping kindergartener.
But you’d get rid of the “busybody”. That’s your sound business policy? What is this, high school? Is “snitches get stitches” in your company handbook as well?
Yes. Look, a ten or 15 minute nap doesnt waste any time, they are just taking their break. And studies have show it significantly increases productivity and quality.
Now, a dude sleeping at his desk for hours? Sure, *that’s *a problem. This isnt.
If I had to guess I’d say she is probably pregnant. When I was in my first trimester I would nod off at my desk almost every day and wake up when my drooping head hit the side of my cube. If it has never been an issue before wait a few weeks and you might find her awake and wearing an all new maternity wardrobe.
Ah, a “perception” issue. I’ve complained to myself before when posters let their own biases cloud their perception of the situation in a thread, and let it affect their replies, and now here I am doing it as well!
“In the US, everyone is allowed a 15-minute break for every 4 hours of work.”
I don’t know where the frack you got this notion. Uhm, incorrect.
“If the person is salaried and merely responsible for meeting deadlines rather than performing x hours of work, then the only criteria that matters is whether deadlines are being met.”
It’s unclear how you’d know what matters to her employer (if you are speaking in a legal sense, this is incorrect; an employer’s free to care about it).
It could be required by state law, but not at the federal level. Not every state requires said breaks, nor does it always apply to all employees. Salary employees are generally exempt from any sort of rules regarding hours worked/days off/breaks, etc.
Because I’m not their parent or their boss, and they didn’t ask me to give them career advice.
I see coworkers breaking professional decorum all the time. As long as they are not disruptive to me, it is not my place to police them or narc on them. I stopped being a goody-two-shoes in the seventh grade.
Of course I would warn a newcomer if getting caught sleeping was a serious offense. But I wouldn’t tell them it’s unprofessional. I’d just say, “You may want to be more discrete so you don’t get fired like the last guy.”
One of the best people who ever worked for me took naps often. During the time he was taking naps he became a world famous expert on his subject. So, unless it causes performance problems, I have no problem with napping.
On the other hand one famous company I worked for said during their employee orientation that napping was forbidden, and was a fireable offense - even if you had been there until 2 am the night before and came back at 8 am the way you were supposed to. I don’t know if they ever enforced it, but they were assholes in several other ways. The people this was being told to were high level engineers, not people right out of high school. I didn’t stay there all that long.
If there is a dude working near her who is willing to play along, get a pic of her asleep with him in the same frame also sleeping. Then start a rumor that guy and girl were caught sleeping together, and there is photographic proof.
This happened to me during an internship. I was sharing an office with the marketing intern, who was a very lazy, unprofessional individual. He fell asleep on a bean bag chair in the corner of the room one day, so I texted his boss, “Approximately one half of the people in this room are awake.”