Longest shift you've worked?
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sniper007 said:
The worst part was when the manager came in to see how things were, all he did was winge about the time it was taking and actually called my Boss to have a word with me to speed things up! Like i could make the data flow from the tape to the HDD any faster
Also from what i remember, the SCSI controller was'nt natively supported by Windows 2000 Server, though my boss swore it was and did'nt bother packing the diskette 
The laptop i was provided with had no floppy, so i had to source a floppy and luckily found an ancient 486 66MHz rig with win95, fought a while to get it on the crappy 64k ISDN and download the drivers.. 
sniper007 said:
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!
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I don't do shifts, but I once flew back in from Spain at 2am, then had to get up at 6am, fly to Amsterdam, then as I was about to leave Amsterdam at 6pm I was told I needed to fly to Naples for an emergency bit of work (a US Senator was coming aboard a yacht, who's main telecommunication system had failed - and they needed it up and running for a video conference meeting the next day). So I flew off to Italy, worked till 4am, slept 2 hours. Then had to fly back to Amsterdam, finish a meeting, then fly home that night at 6pm.
Ok so I did sleep a little bit, but with the travel it didn't half exhaust me.
Ok so I did sleep a little bit, but with the travel it didn't half exhaust me.
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Agadoo said:Used to work cash in hand on a fairground, 9am till 1am (16 hours) 6 days a week - shocking hours and even worse pay, was a good laugh though
i used to work at at fair ground, i've done loadsa hours one worked for 24hurs straight !
like agadoo said it is a god laugh but shocking pay !
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Medical Students used to (they might still, but I am going from what my parents have told me), have extremely long hours, e.g. 50 hour shift (albeit they were "on call" for parts of this, however, this means they cannot sleep, or be away from a phone). I think they have changed this now due to it being dangerous.
Angus Higgins
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About 8 days/nights, catching 20 mins kip whenever I could (although I did get 2 or 3 periods of 2 1/2 hours)! Was the only person qualified to do the job so used to sleep with a headset on and wake up when it spoke to me - was ok but started to see wierd things and when it finished I slept for about 30 hours and then caught a cold which lasted for three weeks!
I've worked 32 hours to ship a product on time.
at around midnight, the engineer heading up the job said he'd buy us all fish and chips for working over.
We forked out for it at the time, but he refused to pay up the next day.
after that, every time he came into our department, someone would yell out ****
...he left soon after
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at around midnight, the engineer heading up the job said he'd buy us all fish and chips for working over.
We forked out for it at the time, but he refused to pay up the next day.
after that, every time he came into our department, someone would yell out ****
...he left soon after
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I did 25 hours once at McDonalds in Swansea (Kingsway) back in my student days.
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I will never do any shifts longer than about 10 hours. In my industry if anything went wrong and the HSE found out we'd been working ridiculous hours there would be public hangings.
I worked for the catering company (ARA) at Wembley Stadium and Arena in 1985 - 1987 and I remember one of the FA cup finals ending in a draw. I started work at 6.30 am on the Saturday morning to get everything set up in the bars and burger kiosks and then spent the day overseeing all the catering outlets. The Stadium concourse was 3/4 mile lond and I walked miles that day.
As the match was a draw, the tickets for the replay were going to go on sale the following day, so thousands of the fans were going to spend the night in their vans and coaches. The catering company set up a burger wagon outside the ticket office, and I was 'volunteered' to work in it overnight. This I did, until about 3.00 pm on the Sunday and then, because there was an event on at the Arena, went straight over to set up the artists' lounge backstage. I finished work at 2.30 am on Monday morning, had 6 hours sleep and got back to work at 9.00 am to get everything set up in the Arena for that evening.
Obviously this was only possible due to an enormous intake of caffeine, but it was great fun and I got to meet loads of celebs.
As the match was a draw, the tickets for the replay were going to go on sale the following day, so thousands of the fans were going to spend the night in their vans and coaches. The catering company set up a burger wagon outside the ticket office, and I was 'volunteered' to work in it overnight. This I did, until about 3.00 pm on the Sunday and then, because there was an event on at the Arena, went straight over to set up the artists' lounge backstage. I finished work at 2.30 am on Monday morning, had 6 hours sleep and got back to work at 9.00 am to get everything set up in the Arena for that evening.
Obviously this was only possible due to an enormous intake of caffeine, but it was great fun and I got to meet loads of celebs.
i left my house @ 5am goto work @ 7am we killed 1200 cattle my back was killing me we left the factory @ midnight and got home @ 2am and yes the drive was worse than the work i was stuck with 2 fat gits in a toyota dyna 3 seater. The factory was keepac slaghter house in dublin i lived in clones co monaghan.