What should you do when you feel sleepy at your workplace?

When I m too sleepy I usually jump a little, play rock christian songs, drink a very cold water or eat, and that is where I reserve all the phone calls I need to do for the day (except for the urgent calls)...like calling the bank, clarify documents to other companies etc. hehehehe, but most of the time I ate a lot of chips, nuts and donuts...Hehehehe! God bless you all!

Sometimes I might feel sleepy while working in my office Crazy_Poster. This is mainly due to the lack of sufficient sleep. Yeah, I would stay up late if I'm curious to know the ending of the tv series I'm watching This keeps me crazy to chase after the story... Sometimes I indulge in playing computer games and forget about it's already late in the wee hours I have to finish the daily office workload and the sleepy feeling could hardly keep me to concentrate on the work. I then stay away from the work a while and make a cup of hot coffee to get rid of the sleepiness. Yeah, the aromatic white coffee which is my favorite drink really works and I am again energetic again Happy posting!

I personally make sure I can take a break, if this isn't possible I try to put water over my face to keep me awake. Luckily I don't usually have a problem with this and when I do, I either feel unwell or I can take break which really does help. Really, within the work place they should understand that this can be a case of being worked too much but usually the bosses that I've experienced think you've been clubbing and staying up late. Doesn't have anything to do with starting early either. :/

I was working overnight at a hotel alone. I was always tired because I could never get use to working the overnight shift. I had once fallen asleep. The next day in the morning I heard about it from my boss. He told me he had cameras in the hotel and could see me sleeping. I thought to myself "great I'm fired". He told me to try and not fall asleep when I was there. He told me do whatever I had to, to try and stay awake. So when I would get to work I would have a cup of coffee. A couple hours after that I would get a cup of tea. Then I would take a long walk around the hotel, sometimes two laps around. Then I would get some cleaning done. I would keep doing all these things all night long till morning. If I still got tired I would step outside for a couple minutes or start working out a little to get my blood flowing. Also, I found out cold ice chips out of the freezer would wake me up quickly. Thank goodness I had a good boss and worked there or I would have fallen asleep somewhere else.

Usually when i feel drowsy while doing work i prefer to have a nice tea which kill my sleepiness and then i resume my work..

Hi crazy_poster!. I think Walking outside the office for few minute will be really helping to ease that sleepiness. If thats not work I usually drink something thats taste refreshing like fruit juice. If thats still make me sleepy I had to wash my face with cold water. This step if I do when feel really sleepy and nothing can help.

Oh I drink coffee whenever I feel sleepy, sweets and caffeine keeps me awake. And I stretch a little. I either talk to my workmate or walk outside the office like you do. But I am not feeling sleepy at all today because I have so many work to finish and it is 6:26pm as I join your discussion and i even finished half of my papers. I am so lame.

If ever I am sleepy but, I can't really be sleepy while at work, I do some stretches to relax my stiff muscles. And then, there is this routine that I do that would somehow really make me feel awake for a short while.. I close my hands and slightly beat it along my shoulder and up to the side of my neck. I would do the same on the other side. After that, with the point of my fingers, I would beat my scalp lightly down to the back of my neck. Then, with open hands, I would lightly hit my face with my fingers while my eyes are closed. Finally, I would suddenly open my eyes several times and I would feel a bit awake from that. I read it from a book and I wish I could just get the book and type all of that here but, I think I would have a longer time looking for it. (^_^")

well well well... this happen quite often when u r working in night shift... i used to work at call center at night... so when i used to feel sleepy, i used to take a break have some coffee and have short talk with my friends... friends always refresh your mind by having light talk...thats my way.. what about yours...

mostly...usually i wash my face with cold water. hope that water could makes me hotter

There really is nothing you can do if you are sleep at work. The only real solution is to get to bed sooner the night before. None of the other options work for me. Drinking something, or playing a game, will only make me more tired.

My job has me driving for up to 8 hours every Monday and Friday, and when I'm sitting in the passenger seat I get real sleepy, but my foreman doesn't like it when I sleep. Sometimes I jsut do it anyway, but I like to get an energy drink or coffee whenever we stop at a gas station, which is usually every hour or so. I'm trying to cut back on the energy drink, becasue I know how bad they are for you. But I also don't need to drink 2 liters of mountain dew a day. And to much coffe tears my stomach up. I've been trying those 5 hour energy drink, which are supposed to be all natural, but sometimes they don't work.

I`m going home :)... and maybe I will sleep. Its better this way. I think that its not a very good thing to sleep on my desk with my boss there:)).

When I feel sleepy or get tired at work. I do a little stretching and moving if not I make black coffee to wake me up.

Well, when I feel sleepy at work I usually take a cup of coffee. I really find coffee very effective for me. In fact, coffee even starts my day. As I wake up in the morning I drink coffee. When I am in the office and not doing much and I feel sleepy, its coffee then for me. Although most of the time, when I am working, I really do not feel sleepy since my work involves much movement and I find it fun.

Yes my job made me tired. I have to spend thee hours to reach my office and to return home. There is heavy traffic jam. Actually I feel bore to go to my job.

I often feel sleepy at work. What I normally do is take a tea or coffee break. I sometimes go to the toilet. The walk there wakes me up.

Hi Crazy_Poster, yes there are times when i really feel sleepy at work and i could not help my eyes from closing. Whenever i feel like this, i drink coffee but most of the time it does not work. So what i do, is to take a nap during lunch break. i have read that daily nap is good for the health and it even prolong our lives. A 5-10-minute walk inside the office would be practical but not outside. That is not allowed unless its break time.

when i feel sleepy ,i try to take tea or coffee ,and also do some movements ,that is resulting freshness

you could try a energy drink or go to the rest room and splash your face with cold water.Also a short walk with some stretching helps some.