My co-worker is sleeping on the job right now. I've been watching him for the past hour thoroughly impressed with his ability to go from sleep to waking between calls and on a call. Right now, he is sitting upright in his chair, his hand posed on the mouse with the Humble ISP staff page on the screen. Not once has the screen saver come on, he must have upped the timing quite a bit.

When he's on a call, he keeps his eyes closed and troubleshoots various connectivity or email problems with a customer. "Click Tools at the top. Okay, click Accounts. Click on the Mail tab and then Properties... What's that? Okay, let's reboot the computer." The end-user reboots his or her antique win98 machine, the process taking at least five minutes. My co-worker relapses into dreams during this time until the clients voice stirs him from sleep mode.

Another fun observation I've made is that he is perfectly tuned to the approach of our boss. As soon as the man comes to our part of the office, the eyes snap open and the mouse dashes across the screen.

Oh, the force is strong with this one!

Being that I have a mischievous streak to me, I've decided to forward all the tech calls to him. I'm trusting that this sleep/wake routine is keeping him so disoriented he won't notice I'm off the phones.

I think it's working!