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Before you go crazy hitting that snooze button on your morning alarm, you might want to double check the time. Your husband and/or son might have changed it because "you looked so tired and we wanted you to get some extra sleep." You might find it sweet but your boss won't, and neither will your landlord when you get fired. #LFMF
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Kinda rude of someone to change someone else’s alarm without asking. Yeah OP has a responsibility to make sure they get to work on time, but the other family members should have left the alarm alone.
Unless there is a past history of past misbehavior, a one-time late to work is a completely unreasonable grounds for firing. If the boss is like that it’s only a matter of time before you would have been moving on anyway.
[probably didn't belong as a 'reply' to you, ClariPossum...sry]
Is okay. I agree with you, too.
Same here. That is a very lame, unfair, and dare I say idiotic boss if this lateness is a one-time thing, no matter how late you show up.
And seriously, if you know your employee has kids, that’s all the more likely that something’s going to go awry. Kids can be walking disasters in every imaginable way, and I’m pretty sure anyone in a “married with kids” situation is bound to wind up coming in late one day due to reasons very much like this.
Yeah, my dad turned off my alarm once because he “wasn’t finished using the bathroom yet” and didn’t want me to get up and use it. Whatever, Dad, just wait until it happens to you!
I’ve never understood the snooze button mentality.
If you feel the need to hit snooze 3-5 times and set your alarm earlier to account for it, why not just set it for the right time and put your alarm somewhere where you can’t easily hit snooze?
I’ve only ever really needed an alarm for rare events like getting up hours early, and then just to make sure.
That’s because you’re one of those people who wakes up quickly and automatically. People’s circadian rhythms and internal clocks differ quite a lot. Some people awaken very rapidly. Others need a slow start to move their brain and body into ready mode. For those people planning in a “snooze” phase makes sense. If left to its own devices my body clock would have me sleeping from 3am to 10am. That doesn’t work in a 9-5 work world, so I have a clock with snooze alarm. It’s not an issue of being lazy or planning poorly. It’s an issue of coping with the biology you’ve got.
Agree. I am NOT a morning person and it’s difficult for me to get out of bed first thing. Without a snooze button, I’d just fall asleep again and be MUCH later for work. My husband is even worse. The alarm can go off for five minutes straight without even rousing him.
(To clarify: Currently I don’t have a job so it doesn’t matter as much, but when I did have a job…)
Yeah, same here. I discovered very quickly that I should never live alone because I can sleep hours through any alarm clock at any volume. But for some reason hearing housemates/roommates getting up and moving around wakes me up.
You usually have to be trying to wake me up to wake me up. I tried getting a new alarm, but they all have the same tone at the same volume. >.>
I have my phone play me a tune as an alarm. It’s pretty effective. It takes me up to an hour’s worth of snoozes to wake myself up – I just can’t function unless I wake myself up gradually and gently over a long time. My boyfriend hates it – he only needs one (and gets up half an hour later than me anyway).
As for the “fail” – no, this isn’t a fail and no, we can’t learn from it. Don’t use the snooze button? Always check with your partner that they haven’t tampered with it? Er, no. The husband and/or son did something stupid there. If they wanted her to get some extra sleep, they could simply have suggested to her that she woke up a little while later. And as I think someone else has already said, what sort of job dismisses an employee for one instance of lateness?! It makes absolutely no sense, especially as she can’t have been THAT much later than usual. I know start times are critical in some jobs, but if it doesn’t go through a proper disciplinary procedure first, then that job sucks anyway.
Join the army. They’ll work out that slow to wake up real quick.
Actually a person can train his/her body to a different cycle. For example, I was initially trained to wake up at about 6:00 because that’s when my parents left the house for work and they woke me up. I continued with that cycle until college (even without parents waking me up) where I pushed it back an hour to be easier on my roommate. Currently I just set the alarm on my phone so it goes off at 6:30 every weekday as a little extra insurance. There are lots of days I don’t feel like getting up, but I also leave an hour for showering and internet activities (plus the phone automatically stops after about 30 seconds and starts in again every 5 minutes).
As a further example, try working a night shift job. Your body will fairly quickly get used to waking up at a different time, though it’ll be awful the first few days.
You’re not contradicting what Levedi said- just because “a person” can train their body cycle, doesn’t mean that *all people* can. You could, meaning- your waking up every morning at 6 was not a coincidence, but not everybody can.
I noticed for example that years of working night shifts and irregular weekly schedules (I do assume it’s different if you work that night shift every day, but my shift schedules have never been the same for two weeks in a row) have messed up my sleep cycle. Or- I work with fire, so during the summer I work at night and sleep during the day and I reverse it during the cold season, but it takes me longer to reverse than to shake off a simple jet lag.
Also- I noticed that my body needs exactly 7 hours of sleep, if I set the alarm clock to give me 5 hours of sleep I’ll just hit the snooze for 2 hours until I finally wake up, if I set it to give me 6 hours I’ll hit the snooze for an hour, if I’ll set it for 8 hours I’ll just wake up an hour before it goes off.
Like Levedi said- people have their own, different, sleep cycles and habits.
To the husband: I see what you did there.
You don’t mess with somebody’s alarm clock, period.
What your husband should’ve done is said, “Honey, you seem a little more tired lately, would it be okay if I reset the alarm?” So that this wouldn’t have happened.
I’d either have him explain to the boss what happened, or just forget about it and find a new job. Good luck
^this
or if he was thoughtful he would have just started slipping some sleeping meds into her food at nights. Just taking it onto yourself to change an alarm clock is just inconsiderate!
What?!? That’s way worse! You DO NOT “slip meds” to ANYONE. EVER.
Waggle, bless him (or indeed her) is a rather silly troll and should be taken with a pinch of salt. I find him funny but what he says is NOT funny if you take it seriously! As there are a LOT of very young readers on this site, I would repeat what you say, KK. It is NEVER OK to give someone medication or drugs without their consent (unless you are a medical professional acting within a legal framework and even then there are few circumstances under which it’s OK). Given the number of kiddies on here I personally think it’s rather irresponsible of the moderators to display Waggle’s post without further comment.
I used to be like that. Then I got an alarm that made me jump 1 foot high and crash down beside the bed the first time I heard it. When it rings, you’re awake.
this is a good strategy, i actually rigged my alarmclock to fire off my gun beside my bed in the mornings, nothing gets your heart racing like a glock, dont even need coffee! (quick side note, if you do this for yourself, make sure the gun is pointed to the ground, had to re-shingle my roof a few times till i figured it out)
I confess, I laughed out loud at this.
I just set mine for an obnoxious station, put the volume high, and put it out of my reach.
It’s jarring, but effective.
Putting alarms out of my reach never worked for me, LoL. I just crawl back in bed anyway.
That was my problem, too, but I need to start doing it again because these days I don’t even notice the time as I hit snooze.
so who actually did it?
I use my cell phone as an alarm clock, and achange which ringtone it uses every couple of weeks. Factor in I always hit the snooze twice, and it works nicely.
Personally, I can’t believe this one is true. No husband is going to reset his wife’s alarm clock for her to get extra sleep without asking first. If he is that “sweet” in the first place, he’ll make sure everything is done so she can go to bed early. He’d also know she is prone to hitting the snooze… and how late did he have to set it so that she was THAT late as to get fired? Never heard of any boss firing someone for being late to work once.
It’s a great story, but thumbs down for being a made up fake.
I agree, who messes up with other people’s alarm clocks because *they* want to, regardless of what the sleeping person decided and needs?!
Also- OP hasn’t even decided if it was her husband or her son… Seriously? You got up, got to work late, got fired, it’s been enough time since that you didn’t find a new job and your landlord is upset… And you still haven’t found which of the two decided to grant you extra sleep?
I call lame excuse, OP is trying to convince herself of the lame story she told her boss in a last attempt not to get fired, probably because it wasn’t even the first time (which would also explained the firing), so this time it had to be something external she could blame, rather than just “I didn’t hear the alarm”.
My ex used to re-set my alarm without asking. Some guys do that to be nice and let their girlfriend/wives sleep.
But if she has to get up, what’s nice about causing her to sleep in without her knowing it?????
It’s one thing if she sets her alarm to get up early on the weekend and get some house chores done, if the guy gets up and does them himself, but if she needs to wake up to go to work, what’s nice about deciding for her that she should continue sleeping?!
^ This. All of this. It isn’t “nice” to wake up later than you thought you’d wake up, have to rush to get to work and maybe be late, or get less “snooze time” than you need. If that happened to me, I wouldn’t get the hour I need to wake up properly; I’d have to wake up quickly, which makes me clumsy, forgetful and stupid; I’d therefore get ready a lot more slowly, probably break something, and leave the house scruffy and without my phone or keys. I’d probably then be too late to cycle to work, which would cost me £10 for public transport; I might even miss the bus and get to work late. The whole thing would stress me the hell out and I would be really angry with my boyfriend for tampering with my alarm. Luckily, he knows better and respects my need for my own space and time.
Exactly! If you could wake up later, wouldn’t you set the alarm clock for that hour to begin with so that you can sleep longer? Does OP’s husband think she needs his permission to sleep more? Or that she wakes up early as a self punishment for no reason? (How arrogant).
I seriously don’t get it.
it’s funny that you automatically assume it was the husband
Thank you but I’m not a funny person, it says “husband” in the original post and I went with that.
If you mean the fact that I chose husband over the son option that’s also in the original post- it takes me back to my first comment in this thread, that I call this whole thing fake and a made up excuse for OP being late for work, no son is going to mess with his mom’s alarm clock to give her more time to sleep…
Also- both Jess and Xebi who commented in this sub-thread with me referred to a male partner, as did Matt whose comment started this sub-thread (who specifically referred to a husband).
So no, I didn’t “assume” anything. I guess you’re not that funny either.
Alarm clock radios FTW. I have mine set to half an hour before I need to get up, so as to allow the dulcet tones of the radio presenters to rouse my brain into action.
ITT: people who have no idea how to get up
This is so stupid. I do not agree with snooze alarms in the first place. If you are that lazy that you have to hit the snooze alarm for two hours to wake up, go to bed two hours earlier and wake up on time. You want a quick solution….put thumbtacks on your snooze button. You will only hit it one more time before you learn to get up when the alarm goes off. All alarms are not made equal. If you need a Spongebob alarm, get it. If your phone doesn’t wake you up, then don’t use the phone. I get up 99% of the time 2 minutes before my alarm goes off. The other 1% is within 10 seconds of the alarm going off.
To the other comments….
ALL , yes EVERY ONE of the people commenting can train their bodies to wake up at a certain time. It may require more effort than you think it should take, but you will accomplish this feat. Giving up after only trying for two or three days is not going to help. That is just a sign of laziness.
The only people that should have problems getting up on time are the ones who work a rotating schedule. If you have a set schedule for more than a couple of weeks, you can train your body to wake up when you need to.
Why do you think that using the snooze option equals being lazy?
I personally don’t like waking up too suddenly (and many days I physically can’t), I like taking my time to wake up and consciously enjoy my time in bed before I get up, just like other people might need more time than I do for breakfast, etc…
People have different paces than yours, that doesn’t necessarily make them lazy. Go to sleep 2 hours earlier? I can’t. I’m self employed and I work many many hours a day. Because, you know, I’m really not as lazy as you think just because I use the snooze button.
That’s complete and utter bollocks. I’ve been getting up at exactly the same time every day (excepting some Sundays) for three years, and I still need a snooze. It isn’t laziness – it’s physiology. Go out into the real world, meet some real people, and then you will learn that not everyone is exactly the same as you.
“awww, you look so tired….”
well of course i look tired, i am asleep jackass!
does not mean you get to make me late for work!