The 15 Best Things to Say if You Are Caught Sleeping at Your Desk

  1. They told me at the blood bank that this might happen.

  2. This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in the last time-management course you sent me to.

  3. Whew! Guess I left the top off of the Liquid Paper.

  4. I wasn't sleeping. I was trying to pick up a contact lens without my hands.

  5. Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off!

  6. I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance.

  7. I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminating against people who practice yoga?

  8. I was doing a "Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan" (SLEEP) that I learned at the last mandatory seminar you made me go to.

  9. Someone must have put decaf. in the wrong pot.

  10. The coffee machine is broken...

  11. Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic.

  12. This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people.

  13. Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem.

  14. I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm.

  15. Amen!