Why don't USAers take siestas?

Protestant work ethic, bro.

BTW, I wake up at 5 a.m.

USAers have things to stay awake and alert for, like guns and Trump's dumbarse remarks.

Maybe they are too lazy.

Sleepy me wrote:

Everyone in USA wakes up at 7am, drinks quarts of coffee till work by 9am, then after 3 hours of hyperproductivity they gorge on lunch. Then enter zombie mode all afternoon after returning (1pm). The body has a cycle where 6 hours after waking it becomes tired.

So why not take a siesta for 2-3 hours? And work again starting at 3-4pm. Would this improve USA?

In grad school I did the siesta in my dissertation year. My productive blocks of time were from about 4 am to lunchtime, then 4 pm until I couldn't stay awake. Logistics and inflexibility of schedules have prevented it since then.

Many take Siestas on the job. Remember that CTA driver in Chicago that slammed his train against the wall? He was right in the middle of one.

trollingfordollars wrote:

Protestant work ethic, bro.

BTW, I wake up at 5 a.m.

I get up at 5 am to pee. Then I work and workout then, sually take a siesta in the early afternoon and work somemore. I'm 65 , though, not a lazy Mexican.

Who doesn't start work until 9am?

You must be a Bernie Sanders supporter.

OlFart wrote:

trollingfordollars wrote:

Protestant work ethic, bro.

BTW, I wake up at 5 a.m.

I get up at 5 am to pee. Then I work and workout then, sually take a siesta in the early afternoon and work somemore. I'm 65 , though, not a lazy Mexican.

And presumably a Trump supporter?

I work at home and make my own hours. So I do take siestas.

Yeah. I don't know too many jobs where the work hours allow you to do it any other way.

observer of buffoonery wrote:

Many take Siestas on the job. Remember that CTA driver in Chicago that slammed his train against the wall? He was right in the middle of one.

SHE was in the middle of one....

First off, I love the USAers label.

Mexico is in America, so they are Americans that take siestas.

But USAers do not.

The US companies are too rigid and too focused on hours worked vs actual productivity.

Instead of paying someone for the number of hours worked or paying a salary and saying they must work in the 8-5 time frame with one small break, they should be given tasks and paid to complete those tasks.

Then you can work whatever schedule you want, take siestas if you want if you complete the tasks.

I am actually in favor of potentially working in nap areas in the office. Getting 20-30 min naps.

Also the USA's rise to superpower was literally powered by the work ethic and the 40 hour work week/2 weeks vacation.

Sleepy me wrote:

Everyone in USA wakes up at 7am, drinks quarts of coffee till work by 9am, then after 3 hours of hyperproductivity they gorge on lunch. Then enter zombie mode all afternoon after returning (1pm). The body has a cycle where 6 hours after waking it becomes tired.

So why not take a siesta for 2-3 hours? And work again starting at 3-4pm. Would this improve USA?

You're right about most average working American adults, but you should know by now that siestas are pretty common among Professional American distance runners.

As a high school teacher, I can vouch that American teenagers take siestas and they quite often occur during my class.

It's because we don't eat dinner @11 at night so we generally get a healthy amount of sleep in a night. If I ever took a nap it would take me 3 hours to completely wake up from it. I'm not tricking my body into thinking it's bed time at 2 in the afternoon. And I'm not working until 8pm so I can take a 3 hour break.

Do you really need 8 hours to get your work done?

Could you produce the same results with a 6 hour work day and a longer break?

Does this now wrote:

It's because we don't eat dinner @11 at night so we generally get a healthy amount of sleep in a night. If I ever took a nap it would take me 3 hours to completely wake up from it. I'm not tricking my body into thinking it's bed time at 2 in the afternoon. And I'm not working until 8pm so I can take a 3 hour break.

Bingo. Just a different lifestyle altogether.

USA, Germany, NL = productive, organized countries

Italy, Spain, Greece = not so much