Today, my boss made me come in at 10 a.m. instead of noon like he usually does. I’ve had nine cups of coffee and STILL can’t keep my eyes open. Why am I like this? FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, like most days recently, and even after 10 hours of sleep, I need at least 3 cups of coffee per day in order be able to… sit on the sofa and, well, not fall asleep. FML
Today, I got up early for a doctor's appointment and chugged two cups of coffee. Ten minutes before I was supposed to leave, my doctor calls asking to reschedule, which would have been fine had I not cleared my whole day for this appointment. Now I'm too wired to go back to bed. FML
Today, our new boss banned coffee from the workplace, comparing caffeine to hard drugs. His comparison may not be wrong; after two hours, I couldn't take it any more, and in between fantasising about his cold-blooded murder, I begged to be allowed just one last cup. FML
Today, I fell asleep at work. I got woke up by my boss with a coffee and a referral letter. FML
Today, I got my ass kicked by my boss at work. Why? Because I missed my shift on Saturday, because I slept through my alarms and the phone calls from my co-workers, and I woke up three hours later in a state of panic. This is all because of a medicine I'm on for migraines. FML
Today, I was told to be at a job site bright and early. I woke up and pounded several body smashing drinks to get going. They then called to tell me work was canceled due to weather. It's 6am. I can’t get back to sleep. FML
Today, I had to wake up at 4am because my boss set an important business meeting for first thing in the morning. After making sure everything was ready, I went to work. My boss ended up oversleeping and moved the meeting to tomorrow. FML
Today, I fell asleep at my desk. It's bad enough that it was for 45 minutes and that I was snoring. What makes it worse? My boss woke me up. FML
Today, I was fired for being late to work, even though the only reason I was late was because I had to stop at Starbucks to get my boss a drink. His son, who is at least 30 minutes late to work every day, was just walking in as I was walking out with all of my stuff. FML
Today, I woke up at 5:30 and made the half hour drive to work only to find out that it was my day off. After finally getting back home and into bed, my boss called, requesting that I come back to work since I was "already up". FML
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GamineHoyden 2
Sleep Phase Disorder.
IHaveThePower 18
So you may have an internal clock that puts your sleep schedule on a different pattern than everyone else's. You can go to the doctor and get some tests done, and they can give you a medical note so your boss (hopefully) doesn't do this again.
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IHaveThePower 18
So you may have an internal clock that puts your sleep schedule on a different pattern than everyone else's. You can go to the doctor and get some tests done, and they can give you a medical note so your boss (hopefully) doesn't do this again.
RichardPencil 32
You're still drunk from last night?
GamineHoyden 2
Sleep Phase Disorder.
randybryant799 21
You're complaining because you didn't have to get to work until 10a?? Are you kidding me?
cacheson 42
That’s not OPs complaint. The complaint is about how sleepy and fatigued they are and don’t understand why because 10am is obviously a ridiculous time to feel like that.
SJKatt 15
Get your thyroid levels checked.
Nazmazh 18
As someone with ADHD and Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, I feel your pain, my dude. Trying to live life according to the rules of normal society is like living in permanent jet lag. Some people are just wired to function better later in the day. And it really sucks when you do have to interact with people, so you have to actually try to fight off your jerk-brain long enough to accomplish whatever you have to. Of course, if it's completely arbitrary and there's no reason for you to be in that early, and it's just posturing on your boss's side of things because he doesn't trust you to complete your work on time because he can't physically see you or whatever - Well that's just an asshole move on his part.
Nazmazh 18
And yes, I am commenting this all at 3:50 am, because of course I'm wide awake right now.