Missa Bergin hopes she never gets sentenced to Life in a Cube Farm...

Top 25 Excuses For Getting Caught Sleeping In Your Cubicle

• I was just waiting for the mighty 386 computer you gave me to finish compiling the data on the work efficiency project.
• It's okay...I'm still billing the client
• This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in the last time management course you sent me to.
• They told me at the blood bank this might happen.
• I was working smarter, not harder.
• I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!
• I'm in the management training program
• Whew! Guess I left the top off the liquid paper
• This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people !
• Actually doing a "Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan" (SLEEP) you learned at the last mandatory seminar your boss made you attend.
• This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work!
• I'm increasing everyone else's productivity by reducing my oxygen consumption.
• I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance
• I was up all night tracking down hackers that were trying to break into our system. Luckily I was able to hold them off!
• I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminatory towards people who practice Yoga?
• Testing my cubicles sleeping conditions satisfies ISO-9000 norms.
• Quickly say "Amen" and explain that you were just praying for the wisdom to "work smarter, not harder"
• Me, snoring? No, that was my floppy drive!
• If I sleep in my cubicle, I can spend more time in the office because I don't have to sleep at home.
• Statistics prove that people who take a short nap after lunch get more accomplished than people who don't.
• I got wrapped up with my project last night and haven't gone home yet, I must have dozed off.
• Recent developments in computer monitor design allow me to project information directly onto my eyelids.
• I was just testing my eyelids for holes. So far I haven't found any, but I must keep looking!
• Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem.
• Hypnotized by my screen saver.