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

[Dr. Love]

Used to work for an illegitimate carpet cleaning business.

Had to be there at teh office at 5am every morning worked 7 days a week if you asked for a day off your were gone. We weren't allowed to go home til 10 pm every night. If you didn't cheat, lie, steal your way to high contracts you were gone, this place was so dam shody when I quit the job I was going in to the office to drop my cleaning machine off, two guys with baseball bats met me at my house to take it from me, and charged me 40 bucks for the privilege.

They also ran a pawn shop on the side, and if you were at a customers house and stole something, they'd give you half of the profits they got from said item, not to mention also dealed drugs so half of the techs (not me) were high as a kite the entire work day which can't say I blamed them.

Worst place ever, though if you were a little ***** and could cheat lie or steal your way through, those little fuckers made up to 5 grand a week, that's 20 grand a month for cheating, lying and stealing.

I only lasted 2 months before I couldn't take it anymore, since I didn't cheat lie and steal, I'd only make 300 a week, 300 a fucking week for working 17 hours a day 7 days a week. All because I was legitimate and only did what customer wanted me to do. I know i'm not the best salesmen in the world but just stupid.

EDIT: Got off on a tangent there, sorry.

Reason I stayed so long was there weren't any other jobs available, but finally it came down to I was paying more for gas then I actually made in any given week.

 

[UltraParanoia]

Longest I've worked in a week was 108 hours, 12 hour shifts standard with a couple doubles thrown in for a decent bit of overtime.

 

[Gyrefalcon]

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!

I wish you the best of luck then with it then! I hope you will get a good IT postition!

 

[Gyrefalcon]

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to regale you with a tale of the most brutal week I have ever experienced in my years working in the television industry. There's a reason so many couples are formed and survive in self contained departments at TV and radio stations. There's no way you could manage it otherwise.

I use 2400 time out of habit.

I worked the 1530 - 0005 Saturday/Sunday shift. That Sunday I was asked to do a turnaround because the morning person was sick. The morning shift began at 0545. Nap in my office, back on air. The shift ends at 1415, but because the op is sick I need to stay an extra two hours to 1615 to get the next set of shows ready. Go home, sleep wearily. Wake up and pull a 1530 - 0005 shift. For the next 19 days, with four more turnarounds and three days shifts (1045 - 1915) thrown in for good measure. My final Saturday shift I am brought in early to do rehearsals for a special show. At 0800. My day has now become 16 hours long. No matter, I go home and sleep. Work my regular Sunday shift. On the way out the door, morning person is sick. 0545 I'm back on air.

I did this for two years.

Longest I've worked in a week was 108 hours, 12 hour shifts standard with a couple doubles thrown in for a decent bit of overtime.

Wow, 108 beats my 73 hour week! But the shifts that go on for months or years are really stunning!

 

[Dark Knifer]

I worked 2 hours once... Yeah, sorry to quote yahtzee, but I haven't worked an honest day in my life...
Oh wait! There was community service for a couple hours if that counts.

 

[Vern]

Probably 50 hours in a week. I'm grateful I have a job where 40 hours are the norm unless you take overtime. My dad however routinely works 60-70 hour weeks, only day off is Sunday. I really hope to god when I'm his age I don't have to do that, but he does own his own business. So that's a plus, not having to worry about getting fired.

 

[Dys]

I've done a 17 hour day (across 3 shifts, had a couple of hours between each, annoyingly..no sleep for me).

I think my longest week was somewhere around the 78 hour mark. I know I've worked 24 hours over the weekend a few times

 

[Lost In The Void]

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.

What is it you do out of curiosity?

Longest shift I ever did was 15 hours a day for 5 days back when I still welded. If the boss makes a bid for a certain date, you made damned sure you made it on time. My father tells me horror stories about harvest days when he helped farmers though. They have some crazy hours farmers do.

 

[Autumnflame]

36 hours for one shift. and 112 hours in a week.

 

[Giddi]

Um, 7:30am till 5pm the next day was my longest... so 33.5 hours. Had to get a project done, then demo it the next day. I told that I'd have it ready, but it took me longer than I thought.
around 130 hours in 7 days for an implementation that went a bit out of scope.

 

[Croaker42]

Working at a movie theater I pulled 72 hour work week followed by a 60 hour work week.
Damn intensive cleaning. You have no idea how filthy a movie theater is.

EDIT: Would also like to add that at the time (I dont know if they still are.) movie theaters were considerd part of the entertainment industry in arizona. That makes them exempt from paying overtime. So Yeah I did those two weeks for normal pay. (No much better then minimum wage and I was a manager.)

 

[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.

What is it you do out of curiosity?

Longest shift I ever did was 15 hours a day for 5 days back when I still welded. If the boss makes a bid for a certain date, you made damned sure you made it on time. My father tells me horror stories about harvest days when he helped farmers though. They have some crazy hours farmers do.

That was when i was in a warehouse and we needed to clear it out. Thousands of stock items and hundreds of misplaced stock or not suppossed to be there stock and 4 forklifts dashing all over the place trying not to hit each other and fill the trucks as they came every 30 mins. I don't work there anymore, i got laid off a few months later as they didn't need the warehouse i emptied.

 

[PxDn Ninja]

I've worked a 26 hour shift, pulling around 75 hours in the week. It was during a bad crunch week prior during Alpha. Xbox submission build was broken.

 

[Georgeman]

The longest I have worked was about 12 hours one day and a total of about 60 hours of doing boring factory work a week. I would have worked all the 7 days of the week (hell I even worked on Sundays for Christ's sake!) for a total of 84 hours, but I was also busy with the university for two days. Fun times.

 

[Idlemessiah]

Don't get many long hours working part time on a till, but this holiday I'm home from uni and I'm overdrawn, so I have tonnes of work lined up. 30 hours in the 3 days before Christmas and the same over 4 days after Boxing day. *sigh*

 

[Romblen]

Looking back at the other posts, I've been fairly lucky. My longest work day wasn't actually a job, just constant working. It went from school, to work, to church, to homework. All together, about 16 hours. That was a long day.