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If a person needs to get their weekly dose of bonding in a poll thread, they need to re-examine their life's mission statement. 
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Maybe you're only seeing part of the picture ...
Next week's poll will ask the big question of whether we have a ten minute snooze setting, a five minute snooze setting or no snooze setting at all.
Once the results are in on that one, a relatively simple cross-referencing of the two sets of data will tell us all an awful lot about the current state of IT industry sleeping patterns. Failing that, at least we'll be able to tell how many people have kids or cats.
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Because survey monkey[^] is sh!te. 
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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I get in bed so early that it's impossible to oversleep.
In fact, I'm often up before sunrise and can fit some 4~6 hours of work before breakfast.
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My internal body clock works like a charm, but I use alarm to abide late situation, I don't want to go late anywhere, so I try to settle my work as my schedules.
Manoj kumar choubey
Sr. Software Developer
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I also wake up a bit before my alarm starts ringing, but then I turn around and close my eyes. 
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yes its true, in weak-end and if i have some more time I also do that.
Manoj kumar choubey
Sr. Software Developer
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The days when my wife feels nice to me and starts cooking bacon and coffee... then I don't need any alarm. 
If not... see Sander Rossel's answer below
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Me and my missus cut the alarm very close to the departing time. 7:11 alarm, 7:30 we're in the car. We like to sleep every useful minute - it's a hbait that stayed with us since the horrible wakes at 5:15 AM.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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But I usually wake up at the very first note of the alarm. Sometimes I wake up just a minute before the clock... but I can't rely on that.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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But I still sleep through them...
I'm a very fast sleeper, I've been known to sleep through vacuum cleaners, people coming in my room, and even fire alarms.
So three alarms that go off at 06:57, 07:00, and 07:05, with ten minute snoozes, but my day at the office often starts at 10:00
Don't tell me to go to bed earlier too, I'll just sleep longer 
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I work anywhere between 8 to 10 hours a day, on average - usually 9 hours. What is your average work day hours? just curious.
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I work 8 hours on average. That's what I signed for, what I get paid for, so that's what I work*.
If I start at 9 (which happens) I'm home early, if I start at 10:30 (which is really my latest) I'm home a little later 
*Unless a deadline or issue requires me to stay longer of course.
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Same problem.
I have 3 set on my phone.
And 2 alarm clocks, one next to me with the sound turned up to max (why the neighbors haven't complained yet I don't know) and one on the other end of the room, someone told me to do that so I'd have to get up to turn it off, the joke is on them, I just sleep through them all.
I wake up when I wake up, after 10 years I'v given up on trying to wake up at a set time.
The worst part of it is though, when I do have to wake up early (to catch a plane or go to some event I can't miss) I just don't sleep at all out of fear that I'll not wake up at all.
Sander Rossel wrote: Don't tell me to go to bed earlier too, I'll just sleep longer
Same as well for me.
Tom
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: someone told me to do that so I'd have to get up to turn it off
Been there, done that... Doesn't work for me either.
Tom Deketelaere wrote: when I do have to wake up early
Somehow that's never a problem for me. Maybe I worry and sleep light in those circumstances.
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I used to be the same. I slept through this: British Weather: Hurricane of 1987 - YouTube[^] and didn't even know it had happened until I tried to get to work the next day.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I usually sleep through storms too, although we've never had such a heavy storm 
At school camp my roommate went sleep walking. He woke up in the middle of the terrain in only his sleeping bag. The doors to the cabins only opened from the inside or with a key. He banged on the window so I'd let him in. Ultimately a teacher had to open the door for him because I didn't wake up. The next day he was so pissed at me for not letting him in. I was the only one of over 100 students who didn't know what happened 
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Gee, that brings back memories.
At school-camp in yr7 we all took off to sleep in the cabins the school owned out in the bush. I was lucky and got put in the cabin with all the other jokers and we had a fine old time. Come night 2 and we're woken up in the middle of the night by Tony, who's clutching at his throat and doing his best impression of Darth Vader as he repeatedly moaned Help Me, Help Me.
Bugger off mate, it's not funny - we're trying to sleep.
Funny thing was we couldn't see Tony the next morning, asking after him we learned he'd been evac'ed overnight since he'd been stung in the throat by a wasp. Everyone else seemed to know this already except for our cabin.  
Er.. ah.. Sorry Tone. Are you okay?
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Quote: I'm a very fast sleeper, I've been known to sleep through vacuum cleaners, people coming in my room, and even fire alarms.
Double their intensity and I will still be able to have a "peaceful sleep".
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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... but it never gets to go off, except in winter.
When the sun is up, so am I - I set an alarm so that Herself is certain to get up on time: she doesn't like to get out of bed at the best of times!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: she doesn't like to get out of bed
That could be a plus.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Not if you refer to her as "herself", except possibly for the peace and quiet he gets by arising early.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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... use one to tell me to go back home again. ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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