Longest shift you've worked?

For a one off I was a drinks waiter for 5 hours at a ball, 8 till 1.

Got paid £70..... :)

Despite being quite underage, the people there were well watered so they wouldn't have remembered.
 
for a month i did 16 hours a night... went from 8hrs at one job to 8hours elsewhere... inc travelling 17hrs. and on the last day of it i got called back in to my previous job so ended up with about 24hours. i was alrght though strangely. think i went past tired.
 
The Pat said:
Longest work shift is only 7 hours. Been up working constantly for 20 hours for a project for uni though.
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I wish that was all I did. The worst I had was 4 projects in in 3 days and I'd balanced my workload incorrectly on an already incredibly unbalanced project list. It was about 76-78hours of constant working on coursework bar toilet and food.

I made all projects in on time for the deadline, however I was then bed-ridden for 5 days for an inner ear infection (labyrinthitis) which stemmed from the lack of sleep and poor diet. It was rough and I have never allowed myself to be caught out as such again.
 
Longest proper shift (working all the time) I've ever done is 12 hours (08:00-20:00).

Done 13hrs (13:00-02:00) before when doing a night time production release but that doesn't really count since in the early evening I was just sat around web browsing and filling out job applications.
 
Roughly 48hrs when a hotel i used to service in my old job had a major server issue (air conditioner they were installing fell on it!), had to rebuild one and restore it, so from getting parts together to rebuilding from dodgy tape backups and readding a bunch of users as the backups did'nt have them! it took about 48hrs with no sleep.
 
27 hours for me, and the last 5 or 6 of those was with a chainsaw :eek:
Then a 20 mile drive back home in a landrover through (west) country lanes.

They paid for that little stint :D
 
32 hours for me - worked 9am to 9pm, caught a film, then an overnight stock check, then 9am to 5pm.

This was back in my cinema days, I wasn't especially tired at the end of it though as there was loads of coffee on the go.

al
 
I work in IT and the other day I did 8am till 3am = 19 hours

This is rare and I dont think I could do that regularly. Saying that you get to a point where you could go through and do 24hrs if you had to. I probably could have.
 
Justintime said:
Roughly 48hrs when a hotel i used to service in my old job had a major server issue (air conditioner they were installing fell on it!), had to rebuild one and restore it, so from getting parts together to rebuilding from dodgy tape backups and readding a bunch of users as the backups did'nt have them! it took about 48hrs with no sleep.
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Its things like this that users don't appreciate. As long as the Internet's up your doing your job - Lusers.
 
one xmas i worked 62 hours out of 72, luckily i lived 5 mins away and the 10 hours where split up into small sleep breaks of 2 hours. That killed me.

More recently, xmas eve, started at 5:30am and worked until 7:20pm without a single break.
 
When I first qualified I used to work every 4th weekend as a pair with another Doc. These were our work patterns:

Doc #1

9am Sat - Midnight Sat
9am Sun - 11am Mon
(Back at work Tues @ 9am)

Doc #2

9am Sat -Midnight Sun
9am Mon - 5pm Mon


Boy I used to hate those weekends, especially when I was Doc#2!
 
My longest shift was 27 hours, we had to get the railings fitted for christmas, otherwise we were stuffed. if we didnt, we would have to work through christmas, so we all decided that it would be better to work and work, rather than have a break = I got to play on my X360 on xmas day, so it was worth it :p

Casmeister.
 
About 18 hours (7am - 1am) in one stint working on a holiday camp, then back in at 7am the next morning.
Theres people in my current workplace doing 24hr shifts quite regulary without any "proper" breaks.
 
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