Nap Time

According to Time magazine...
Everyone should take 3 half hour naps at work each week in order to lower the risk of heart-related death
Fatigue costs US businesses $150 billion due to lost productivity that fatigue

I agree, like in kindergarten, we should all have nap time.

In highschool, I sure as hell could have used one. From swim practice to school to choir practice back to swim practice to the hours of homework from my multiple AP classes, I barely slept those four years. Not to mention all the social aspects of life I was trying to become familiar with (which, at the age of 15, took a lot of work.) I think I would have been a much happier, more productive teenager with a half hour nap three days a week.

Today, I spent 8 hours answering phones from curious, irritated, or just down-right stupid customers wanting to know where their couch was or why we didn’t deliver on weekends or whether the ice in their drive-way would inhibit the deliverers from delivering her sofa set in a months time. I got calls from Canada to the Mississippi delta asking detailed questions about furniture I've never seen or heard of. As a part-time worker for CSN, I've taught myself that as a customer service representative, I have to tell them what they want to hear. I'm the front line of advertising and pr.

The issue arises when, at 3:30pm, I'm dealing with a particularly stupid or angry client and would prefer to drink 1/2 a gallon of milk in 10 seconds than continute to talk to this bored house wife with no one else to take her anger out on except me. Now, when I arrive at work, I'm quite happy to serve these peoples' menial needs, but after about I've been working for 5 hours already, I'm tired, fed up, and far less productive on each phone call. I, therefore, choose diet coke or some sort of stimulant to boost my energy. That MAY be why I have supraventricular tachycardia, a heart problem.