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

[Therumancer]

I think I pulled 26 hours once in a shift even though it wasn't "legal". One of the joys about being security where I worked is that if your on post as opposed to roving you can't leave until someone relieves you. This means if they stick you someplace obscure due to a lock being broken, or a failure in the camera coverage back of the house, or whatever, it can sometimes take an act of god for the next shift to relieve you even if you call them.

In that paticular case though some people got yelled at because it was pretty bloody unreasonable.

 

[Haunted Serenity]

23 hours. then i an hour to eat, change and shower and went back out and did another 23. next day i slept for 18 hours.

 

[Xanadu84]

I did work a 17 hour shift at 2 jobs, 7-midnight, then woke up in the morning to go to work at 7. All retail. I think my longest week was only something in the low 60's, but I did work 15 straight out every Sunday for about a year or so.

 

[Gladion]

Let's see, there are some people who still beat me - didn't think that was actually possible.

Here's the situation: My first theatrical movie. Every day was usually about 14-16 hours of work, the longest day being 19 plus driving to the set, five to six days a week. For weeks - or maybe months (like in my case two months). Then there's your colleagues who won't let you go to sleep until you get to drink three beers with them ;D that leaves you with MAX six hours of sleep down to only three hours. Then there's times when you shoot at night, which is absolute horror. Even if you work less counted in time, it wears on you much more when you start working when everybody else is going home and quit working when everybody else is having lunch.
I love the abuse and I want more.

Edit:

23 hours. then i an hour to eat, change and shower and went back out and did another 23. next day i slept for 18 hours.

This shit is unbelievable.

 

[leighjet]

a friend of mine just worked two 19 hour shifts and a 21 hour shift with three hours sleep inbetween.. his dad doesnt love him much haha

 

[Dwarfman]

I've done a 14 day week. Each day being roughly 15 hours long. This makes the grand total of 210 working hours without having a day off. Still had time to sink two pints and have five hours sleep in between shifts but m'eh...

 

[Low Key]

Screw them.

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

Haha thanks for censoring me.

Spoiler: You missed one though. :)

...which basically means I got bitched at by people who I did nothing to piss off.

But unfortunately I'm still getting kicked around at my new job. At least I get paid more though, and it's a government position. When I finish college, I'll be moving on up. Nobody kicks around the IT guy. All I have to do is mention shell scripts and they'll all run away. Elitist computer geek FTW!

Well, I've never worked, and I can't find a job in the recession. So 0 hours. Just try to beat that.

Really? I had my first job when I was 12 years old. Where do you live?

 

[The3rdEye]

I have a question to all the military people quoting 21+ hours a day of wakefulness for days on end in field:

How does effectiveness play into all that? Sure, an adrenaline rush has interesting effects on the system and can compensate for a number of deficiencies, but adrenaline rushes usually occur as the result of something you had rather NOT have happened. Like someone screaming "Gas! Gas!" while everyone's eating, and the gear was so god damned heavy that you dropped it ten feet away before tucking into dinner, your gas mask still attached to your 'pack.

Unless we're talking "front line, a$s holes and elbows" type shit, I don't see the benefit of running your soldiers into the ground and slowly whittling away their effectiveness. I would think it better to have 20-8-20 soldiers working at 80% both days than 22-4-22 and paying 8-10% for those extra four hours of up time. But then I'm not in the military, and I may have just demonstrated why.

 

[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

O RLY?

how about you do some basic math. 24x7=168. or did u fail math

 

[CouchCommando]

80 hours, I was working full time as an after noon wards man in a major hospital emergency room, and had just started my apprenticeship.
I've also done three months of 7 day weeks 10 hours on the week day and 6 on the weekends

 

[chronobreak]

My longest single shift was 20 hours. I worked at a hospital here in New England, and there was a wicked snowstorm that prevented pretty much anyone from leaving, so I decided to go on snow patrol and make some overtime. Bad move. After 3 hours out in the snow, I was exhausted and took a nap on a stretcher, which lasted for like 4 hours, and I got paid for it.

 

[Caligulove]

15 hours. Last year.
which would have already been exhausting but it was from 4am until 7pm. On Valentine's Day... and I had already gone and asked my bosses for that day off over and over again. But this was when I was still working at this Hotel... always had long hours in the kitchen.

But I worked so long and then had to get home, get changed and meet my girlfriend and friends to go out to a show which was at 8pm. It was a nightmare.... but it all turned out alright. Was able to stay awake and had a great time that night.

Then slept for 10 hours, woke up and took my girlfriend out to brunch to make up for a lack of a one-on-one Valentines day dinner before.

 

[SmartIdiot]

I used to regularly do 18 hour shifts, most hours I clocked up was 108 in one week, though the norm was usually 80/90+.

 

[phoenixbeast]

December 23 one year....Worked for a cafe (Dishwashing and every other menial chore for 10 cents above minumum at the time...$5.25) that was doing the catering for a wedding...

That morning I worked from 7-2...Then I got to go home, grab lunch, and then come back at 4...From then on I worked from 4 pm till 2am...17 hours total...Oh and I didn't get supper until after I was done working...Nothing worse than being hungry and watching food go out, and the leftovers that you cannot touch (even if they didn't touch it) come back in to be thrown away...Then cleaning off all the things...17 hrs of work...The day before Christmas Eve...NOT FUN...

The only good thing was that I got a $20 Christmas bonus...I have since quit that job for a more lucrative one, that I am now having to get up for actual internships...

 

[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?

how about you do some basic math. 24x7=168. or did u fail math

How about you try reading through the entire post before talking shit? Im pretty sure someone said that I was making a joke and I replied that they were right. So before you talk shit actually read the post. Sorry sir but you fail.

 

[Captain Kangaroo PIMP]

i did crew and food for a enduro racing team worked from 8am that Friday until 3pm sat for a grand total of... 31 hours and you try to sleep with the sounds of race cars going around a track for more than a day.

 

[mokes310]

I have a couple examples. First was when I was managing a sub shop and I ended up working 28 days straight. Just 8 hour shifts, but when you work for four weeks straight, it ends up being pretty exhausting.

Second, I was helping my cousin with his smoothie franchise and we worked from Thursday to Sunday, all day, with four hours sleep each night. That was pretty brutal.

I'm a guy who needs his sleep, a good 6-8 hours a night, and when I don't get that, I tend to get a bit frazzled!

 

[Vet2501]

7am-7pm the next day with only 2x 2hour naps during the night, every third day for 3 weeks!
I love lambing time!