For you office dwellers, do you get that daily afternoon crash? I'm so much more productive from 7-1 than I am 2-5..

What do you do to alleviate/avoid it?

8/15/2011 3:14:56 PM

I frequently do, especially with this sinus pressure weather today. It helps if I can run a little at lunch, but I barely have time for that. Today my fix was espresso but it's not doing much.

8/15/2011 3:16:25 PM

I do if I eat a big lunch, but if I do the more snacking/grazing thing I stay pretty consistent most of the time.

8/15/2011 3:17:32 PM

every day

8/15/2011 3:18:10 PM

I'm pretty much useless after 3:30 regardless. methinks the workday should be from 10-3:30

8/15/2011 3:19:47 PM

^ I could do most of my work in that timeframe so count me in!

8/15/2011 3:20:22 PM

I always crash around 2:30 or 3:00pm

fucking sucks....caffeine doesn't fix it.

8/15/2011 3:22:12 PM

3-3:30pm crash daily. not much can alleviate it unless i'm on a big deadline. 3:30-5:30 is the slowest block of time ever.

8/15/2011 3:41:33 PM

^same

My brain doesn't work well until about 11am and its pretty much done around 3:30.....I should probably work on that

8/15/2011 3:43:24 PM

Thanks for the update...

8/15/2011 3:44:07 PM

8/15/2011 3:44:43 PM

this thread should be locked. you can discuss this in the general chit chat 2011 thread

8/15/2011 3:45:07 PM

LOL

I'm eating aminal crackers

8/15/2011 3:45:49 PM

I see you.

8/15/2011 3:46:27 PM

i'm eating vanilla flavored yogurt raisins

and my crash started at like 3:15

[Edited on August 15, 2011 at 3:51 PM. Reason : ,.]

8/15/2011 3:50:27 PM

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[Edited on August 15, 2011 at 4:07 PM. Reason : yup - totally worthless at the moment]

8/15/2011 4:06:23 PM

8/15/2011 4:36:12 PM

I'm tired

8/15/2011 4:40:26 PM

isn't this exactly how the 5 hour energy commercials go?

maybe y'all should try 5 hour energy.

8/15/2011 4:58:39 PM

But why? I have nothing better to be doing.

8/15/2011 5:03:36 PM

More productive in the afternoon/evening, always stay later then most....probably due to less distractions.

[Edited on August 15, 2011 at 5:06 PM. Reason : w]

8/15/2011 5:06:12 PM

is this thread inspired by the goddamn 5 hour energy commercial?

8/15/2011 5:07:32 PM

I normally hit the wall around 3-3:30. Luckily I leave the office at 4 everyday, so I can usually just coast from 3:30-4 and hit the road

8/15/2011 5:25:41 PM

I normally start to crash about 2:30 but then I remember I get off work at 3pm

8/15/2011 5:37:59 PM

8/15/2011 6:00:37 PM

How did it take that long?

I'm astraladvent and I approved this message

8/15/2011 6:02:35 PM

I crash around 2:00-2:30 and drink a big (24oz) coffee. Keeps me going till 5:00 and I usually spend 5-whenever I leave talking about work, usually leave at 6:13.

8/15/2011 7:31:16 PM

Yea but only if I eat a large lunch. A small/medium lunch does not do this.

Also kinda helps that I stopped caffeine. No morning surge from the coffee followed by letdown in the afternoon. Plus I leave before 4, so that helps.

8/15/2011 7:34:58 PM

My most productive time is from 4-6

8/15/2011 7:40:05 PM

I don't leave for lunch, so that makes my 2-5 all the more sucky

8/15/2011 8:32:37 PM

Quote :

"FIVE HOUR ENERGY"

8/15/2011 8:34:26 PM

i drink a soda or a coffee but other than that from like 2 (and definitely 3) to 5 my productivity slows WAY down

i agree - after 3:30 i'm pretty much just like, ok one more hour, then 30 minutes of dicking around/getting ready to leave. after 3:30 unless it is really busy, i'm totally useless.

8/15/2011 11:43:39 PM

i crash around 230-330 usually. eating keeps me awake...but that would also make me fat, so i chew a shit ton of gum. if it's really bad i'll get up & walk to the copier for no reason other than to move around a bit, go chat w/ the bookkeeper, or throw a bouncy ball at a coworker & hope it gets returned so we can play paddle ball (we have a container of ~500 bouncy balls & everybody has a wood product sample they hit them with). we break shit, but not nearly as much as when bossman gets in on it.

8/15/2011 11:47:41 PM