Longest shift you've worked?

[marl]

used to do 12 hour shifts - seemed long enough at the time.

 

[Colbaker]

38 hours I think when at BK. Might be a little longer when working in Bristol for ICL.

Both were purgatory.

Come on you gotta be joking, i do that in a week. With no sleep as well?, Im sorry but i can't believe that

 

[Sone]

only done 14hrs, i feel decidely lightweight

 

[threedee]

50+ hour shift. Not a joke. I was a mess for a month afterwards.

We had to do a fuel station franchise project in 5 days. I was summoned as only guy professionally knowing autocad, coreldraw, proper plotting and PC technical stuff at the time (1989-90?). Spent almost 2 days setting up network, 5 pcs, new plotter (bought just for that job, cost a fortune), software, etc. Pizza and coffee on demand. Had some sleep during those 2 days. Not so next 3 days.

Had to draw stuff from scratch (acad), do coloured elevation presentations (coreldraw, 3ds-dos), plot stuff, plot some more stuff, and then some. Troubleshoot bloody HP plotter (since then i hate HP with a passion), that actually set us back about a day (no internet, remember ? fidonet then)... Downed buckets of strong coffee. Felt like Hammy on steroids...for some time...

Last thing i remember is that i started to halucinate. Badly. Drugless trip. Later my coleagues told me that i hit a keyboard with my head so hard, that it had to be replaced. They were finding keys a year later My OS crashed and burned. Slept for about 24h afterwards.

We actually pulled that project off, we beat the competition, passed with flying colours. In 5 days we had to come up with concepts, designs, technical drawings, construction calculations, visual presentations, interior design, etc, etc. What usually takes months to do was done in 5 days. I'm proud of being part of that project.

I earned 6 months worth of my normal salary that week.

P.S. Wouldnt do that again....scary stuff. Dont try this at home. Messes with your head badly...
P.P.S. Well, unless they pay me that well again, i might reconsider

 

[porkrind]

Just got home from a 16 hour shift at Tesco. Admittedly it was overtime added on to my usual hours - 7am until 4pm with the overtime being 4pm until 11pm. This is working in the 'Dairy' section by the way.

So, what's the longest shift you've worked? Why did you do it? Where do you work? And most importantly, was it fun?

My feet ache.

it is illegal to work more than 12hrs ?????

 

[Entai]

Fine! Ok then!

You win

Oh no he doesn't.

Can't let the yankies think they can win at everything now can we.

In 1998 I was working for Formula Palmer Audi.

From going into work at 8:30 wednesday morning the first time I got any sleep (even 30 secs shut eye) was saturday evening at 9:00pm so that was 86.5 hours continuous with no sleep or rest or anything.

I claim my virtual cookie please.

 

[wizard91]

Im lucky I dont have a job yet hehe.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

32 hours non-stop

 

[^TANK^]

used to do 12 hour shifts - seemed long enough at the time.

 

[goldilocks]

i worked as a 'live in baby sitter' a few summers ago
i was paid in food, accomodation and a week long trip to aspen
it was kinda awesome, but meant i had 2 kids (aged 2 and 3) all to myself, all day and night for almost 4 weeks (while the parents set up their new business)
so yeah, does that count as ~672 hours?

though in real jobs terms i've never woked more that 7hrs a day, 7 days a week - and that almost killed me!
i can't believe what some of you have done! i'd never have the stamina!

 

[hendrix]

16 hours in one shift was my longest, but most weekends over summer it was 2x15 shifts one after another. Managed to clock up 70 hours in 5 days working at a Hotel (wedding functions)

 

[reflex]

10 hours for me but its my first job

 

[sniper007]

I'm sure there are plenty of other jobs that involve a lot of work, but you dont hear them moaning about being unappreciated! For some reason its always people who work in IT that expects thanks for working?! I work in IT too but it's my job so dont expect thanks for it! It's not like I walk into Tesco, go upto the shelf stacker and say "Golly gosh, those shelves look great. Well done on the stacking" or send letters to people on the oil rigs thanking them for spending weeks away from home getting the petrol for my bike.

Tis why it's called a job. I'm paid for it, I dont do it as a favour so dont expect thanks or letters of appereciation!

But working till 3am making things work the next day is not part of my job description and I could have happily gone home and cost the business shed loads of money by not fixing it until midday the next day, plus giving nobody any work to do until then. All out of good will. No thanks for it at all and always seen as the people that break things. The point is, people have no idea what we do to keep things ticking over. Totally oblivious.

 

[KNiVES]

Longest I did was 12 hours at a plastics manufacturing company. Twas 4 hours overtime on a normal 8 hour shift. 6am till 6pm doesn't sound quite so bad compared to some of you guys!

 

[Rachel]

17 hours - from 7am until midnight when I worked for a shop - did the whole day in the shop, then the audit until midnight. The next day I did 7am-9pm, the day after 7am-8pm.

 

[PhilthyPhil]

I did 12 hour nightshifts in a fridge factory during the summer a couple of years ago, but last term my timetable was solid 9-6 (9 hours) on a Monday and I found that far more tiring. Pretty unimpressive compared to most, theres no way I could work for 24hrs+, I need my 8 hours.