Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

Researchers at Oxford University have decided that "Forcing staff to start work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture...". And, "university students should start at 11 a.m."

Funny, in school I put every class I could, before lunch!

http://news.nationalpost.com/health/sta ... rcher-says

Then by the end of the article they are saying it is "lack of sleep" and "sleep deprivation", that is the real problem. So... go to bed earlier?

I couldn't imagine starting my work day at 10 am . I've always favored starting as early as possible and ending my day around 2 pm .

[ Post made via Mobile Device ]

In undergrad I slept in many days past 10 am. But... that was because I took as many "night" classes as I could; they met once a week for three hours, and that was easier to coordinate with my job where I worked midnight shift.
Fairfax County just pushed back start times for HS (to the tune of $5 million) for basically the same reason.

How the hell can a man put in an honest 16-hour day if he waits till the day's half gone to start?

dorminWS wrote:How the hell can a man put in an honest 16-hour day if he waits till the day's half gone to start?

Supervisory personnel are immune to early start times and late hours.

[ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Maybe if the precious little snowflakes would go bed at a decent time they'd be ready to face the day.

WRW wrote:

dorminWS wrote:How the hell can a man put in an honest 16-hour day if he waits till the day's half gone to start?

Supervisory personnel are immune to early start times and late hours.

"Supervisory personnel" and "honest" work? So confused!!

Oh poor babies! I go to bed at 11pm, barely sleep, and get up at 6am every day.

thekinetic wrote:Oh poor babies! I go to bed at 11pm, barely sleep, and get up at 6am every day.

This is similar to my schedule as well. In bed by 11, up by 530-545...de-zombify by 6.

I can't help but think about my dear old pappy, who used to get up and be at the office by 4:00AM. (We had a few salesmen back then who actually left at about 5:00AM because they had very long routes) When I'd show up at 7:30 or so, he'd be sitting in a chair in the lobby where he could see everyone who came and went and find out where they were going and what they were doing that day. He always greeted me with the same phrase:

"Good morning, son. What did you do with the FORE PART of the day?" He wasn't kidding, either.

thekinetic wrote:Oh poor babies! I go to bed at 11pm, barely sleep, and get up at 6am every day.

I'm at work at 0445.

Actually I read a study somewhere that adults really only need about four hours of sleep per day and that over sleeping at night causes a loss of productivity and concentration during things such as work. I'll have to find it again it was a interesting read. It also talked about monophasic, biphasic, and polyphasic sleep patterns and how some of the most intelligent people had very unusual sleeping patterns.

It's all relative to your sleep cycle, in most cases. You could say "I'm at work by 3am, but I go to sleep at 8pm." Doesn't matter when you get to work, it matters how much or little you sleep the night before.

My buddy used to work 6pm to 3am each day as a Geospacial Analyst. His sleep schedule was a bit sporadic. Again, it's all relative.

It's always ten o'clock somewhere. I just have to wonder how circadian rhythms know we are on daylight savings time.

[ Post made via Mobile Device ]

WRW wrote:It's always ten o'clock somewhere. I just have to wonder how circadian rhythms know we are on daylight savings time.

[ Post made via Mobile Device ]

They don't but the time difference is so minimal that it really shouldn't affect us, people just like to use it as an excuse to be late. Which is crap and letting it slide only shows poor boss leadership which in turn encourages such behavior. A real boss would say if your late again you're fired, no matter the circumstance. It's what my dad did when he ran a job site and it works.

If you treat people like children they'll act like children!

Read somewhere that before office/factory hours regimented human schedules and relatively convenient sources of artificial light liberated folks from the strictures of when it was daylight and when it was dark, it was almost universal that people slept two different times at night, and got up for a while in the middle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep

Dorm, that is indeed a fact! After watching a show on "Night" on the History Channel, they stated that, in researching. People would go to sleep when it got dark, sleep for a bit, get up in the middle of the night, and actual VISIT each other!

That said, "Don't be knocking on my door after midnight unless you're bleeding profusely."

Sleep is a weird thing, you can be asleep for 10 hours, and get absolutely no rest on time, then the next, grab a nap in a hammock outside for 2 hours, and be as well rested as sleeping 12 hours!

We're a weird animal.

We are indeed peculiar organisms. I used to know a truck driver who was sort of an outlaw that would, before a particularly long trip, drink a small (probably 4 ounces) jar of honey and a half-pint of milk, then a couple of cups of coffee before laying down and going to sleep. He would wake up in a couple of hours and then claimed he was good for 24 hours of driving.