Longest shift you've ever worked/most hours in a week

[Gyrefalcon]

So what is the longest shift you've ever had at work and/or what were the most hours you've put in during a single week?

My longest shift was 16 hours straight and the most hours I had were 73 hours at work that week (filling in a full second shift while someone was having surgery).

My husband beats that with 19 hours straight with only 2 hours of sleep in between and 19 hours again for 3 days. That's 51 right there. But it looks like that was all he had to deal with for that week.

So let us know about yours!

 

[zauxz]

Wow, that sucks.

I've never worked so long in my life. I once had to drive for 13 hours straight, If that counts.

 

[mmkorn22]

17 hours was my longest. I work 2 jobs though. Once in a while, they collide and I end up working two 8 1/2 hr shifts back to back. Very rare, but it happens.

EDIT: I've been working 60-hour weeks for a year and a half now. It sucks, but it's better than living with mom.

 

[Nietz]

Well, I got a temp job from a friend at a bakery once, not the cosy little corner store bakery, but more like a pastry factory. There I worked for three days(Saturday, Sunday, Monday), doing 19 hour shifts all days. Me, my friend and another temp got to sleep in the locker room of the factory, and we got all the money "cash-in-hand"(no tax ^^). That was all in all 57 hours of work.
The thing is here in Sweden we have something called Fat Tuesday, it's an old "holiday"(not really, but a celebrated day), where everyone eats lots and lots of pastries filled with cream. So the demand for pastries was extremely high. And what we did was just putting the cream in the pastries... Man, I had wankers cramps for a week after that...

 

[Hamsterlad]

five days all having 14 hours a day

 

[Poomanchu745]

I once worked 169 hours in a week. I am superman!

 

[selce]

Black friday this year got to work from 12 midnight to 8 am, then got to comeback later at 4 to work until closing, so 18 hour shift is my longest, thankfully its only once a year

 

[JohnWilksB00th]

im used to working long hours during race season at the racetrack by my house. i do security for them. so during world superbike for 2 weeks straight i worked 7 days a week 16-18 hour shifts a day. that really burned me out. i have done that now both times we have had them at the track. but is what makes it worse is that i am on salary. so no overtime pay. so lets see that makes it well over 100 hours a week for 2 weeks.

 

[JohnWilksB00th]

I once worked 169 hours in a week. I am superman!

its too bad that there are only 168 hours in a week and not 169

 

[About 115 Ninjas]

i work as a Bakery Clerk, spent 16 hours, 5am-10pm with an hour break, 5 times (Monday through Friday) in one week.

 

[About 115 Ninjas]

(correction, I worked as a Bakery Clerk.) At my current job (sports beat writer) I spent 70 hours in the newsroom, a few more out in the field. didn't get the chance to actually go home for a while.

 

[Low Key]

When I used to work at a local amusment park, I was the only one over the age of 18, which apparently made me the most responsible one. So I was pretty much forced to work from 7am to 10pm every single day (78 hours a week) for 3 months in the "customer service center", which basically means I got bitched at by people who I did nothing to piss off. And that was for $6.50 an hour. Why I put up with it, I have no idea.

Then I got fired for taking a coupon that wasn't valid until the next week, even though it probably only costed them $40 total and I had the record for my till zeroing out everyday. Others were stealing money, but it was me who got canned. Fuck them.

(correction, I worked as a Bakery Clerk.) At my current job (sports beat writer) I spent 70 hours in the newsroom, a few more out in the field. didn't get the chance to actually go home for a while.

I feel your pain. I wanted to get into television before I started learning computers. My dad has worked in sports television for almost 40 years and I got an internship thanks to him. It was fun, but it was also very boring at times with very long hours.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

Longest shift is nine hours and most in a week is 24 hours. Admittedly I only work part time since I'm in college. Once full time work starts up that will probably increase.

 

[dantheman931]

16 hours is my longest shift. I once had to work eight days straight because my boss was a fucking idiot and refused to fix the schedule that he screwed up. The worst part is, I only got a day off before I had to go back again.

 

[manaman]

I was deployed while in the military. Technically you could count every hour for weeks that I wasn't sleeping as working. I had to stay up and on the move for days at a time with only small naps and rests here and there. It was rare during those weeks to actually have a real honest nights sleep. I think I had to go nearly three weeks without a shower. You never want to have to sweat that much, and not shower. I don't think I was fully clean again for months.

 

[chemicalfire]

I don't know if this counts because I was on Active-Duty at the time, but I was putting in roughly 19 hours a day for 3 weeks straight with 8 hour days every fourth week as a "break". That's 7 days a week and it lasted for about 18 months. After your first two months on a cycle like that you start seeing and hearing wierd things and doing some crazy things. We started having canned tuna eating contests at lunch and we came up with the saltine challenge: eat 10 saltine crackers with nothing to drink in 40 seconds or less. Oh, and someone got a dislocated shoulder from playing a game called "lightning legs".

 

[About 115 Ninjas]

I was deployed while in the military. Technically you could count every hour for weeks that I wasn't sleeping as working. I had to stay up and on the move for days at a time with only small naps and rests here and there. It was rare during those weeks to actually have a real honest nights sleep. I think I had to go nearly three weeks without a shower. You never want to have to sweat that much, and not shower. I don't think I was fully clean again for months.

you sir, are a badass.

I feel your pain. I wanted to get into television before I started learning computers. My dad has worked in sports television for almost 40 years and I got an internship thanks to him. It was fun, but it was also very boring at times with very long hours.

yeah, I love my job, even when I have to report on high school wiffle-ball (exaggeration but you get my point). But the hours can really drive you insane, especially when you have to sleep at work. Then the editor has the nerve to say, "Umm... didn't you wear that yesterday?"

 

[Gyrefalcon]

When I used to work at a local amusment park, I was the only one over the age of 18, which apparently made me the most responsible one. So I was pretty much forced to work from 7am to 10pm every single day (78 hours a week) for 3 months in the "customer service center", which basically means I got bitched at by people who I did nothing to piss off. And that was for $6.50 an hour. Why I put up with it, I have no idea.

Then I got fired for taking a coupon that wasn't valid until the next week, even though it probably only costed them $40 total and I had the record for my till zeroing out everyday. Others were stealing money, but it was me who got canned. Screw them.

Well, I hope you find a job that will appreciate your dedication! You definitely deserve better with your skills!

im used to working long hours during race season at the racetrack by my house. i do security for them. so during world superbike for 2 weeks straight i worked 7 days a week 16-18 hour shifts a day. that really burned me out. i have done that now both times we have had them at the track. but is what makes it worse is that i am on salary. so no overtime pay. so lets see that makes it well over 100 hours a week for 2 weeks.

That is impressive! I can imagine the burn-out level! @-@

 

[Poomanchu745]

I once worked 169 hours in a week. I am superman!

its too bad that there are only 168 hours in a week and not 169

O RLY?

 

[CrafterMan]

100 hours in a week while I was doing a factory job. Ouch. Man working that much is nothing to brag about, it fucks your life.