It is your job sir! It does indeed count!chemicalfire said:
*I forgot that I had to do a 36 hour shift last year at a convention because 2 people called in-that was hard.
Longest shift you've ever worked/most hours in a week
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*I forgot that I had to do a 36 hour shift last year at a convention because 2 people called in-that was hard.
Single Shift:
Longest single shift was 17 hours straight, shunting freight with pump-trucks and hand balming a solid 53'x8'x9' block of merchandise off a truck.
Work Week:
Eleven hours a day, one hour commute each way, six days a week for about a month. I think I made less than 700 that month too (freaking commission only sales job).
Not the worst, but you can bet your last dollar that I dropped that job like a ton of bricks.
Longest single shift was 17 hours straight, shunting freight with pump-trucks and hand balming a solid 53'x8'x9' block of merchandise off a truck.
Work Week:
Eleven hours a day, one hour commute each way, six days a week for about a month. I think I made less than 700 that month too (freaking commission only sales job).
Not the worst, but you can bet your last dollar that I dropped that job like a ton of bricks.
A two week stretch, 10-12 hours every day. I do so love warehouse work.[small] never again...[/small]
During my service with the army, I had one exercise where I and most of my platoon went without sleep or any form of break (save for breakfast/lunch/dinner) for 48-72 hours. I clocked in at 70 hours when I went to bed at 4am to sleep for three hours before going on to be awake for another 21.
Needless to say, after ten days with only 21 hours of sleep (and the rest being constant fieldwork) I was so exhausted I barely remember the last three days and the trip back to the regiment.
Needless to say, after ten days with only 21 hours of sleep (and the rest being constant fieldwork) I was so exhausted I barely remember the last three days and the trip back to the regiment.
I once had a week with something like 96 hours, that sucked. But the longest shift I had was doing some snow removal work. I worked for 21 straight hours, then 6 hours off and another 29 straight hours for a total of 50 hours in basically 2 days. I hate snow.
I did 3 14hr shifts in week, bringing it to 72hrs in one week at the age of 19. One of those days was completing a full stocktake which I had no experience in doing. It made me feel better when the store I did the stocktake for was $1500 down in variance...their Assistant Manager pissed me off. I've also worked 2 weeks straight without a day off, no penalty rates either for going over your weekly hours. It didn't take long for me to quit following that escapade.
Wow! And no one gave you any recognition for doing that well on a stocktake? *me gives kudos* I'm glad you escaped that place! Harsh.MelziGurl said:
I think its just a joke, hence the 169 (impossible) paired with Superman. But there is no body language or inflection on written posts so it's hard for jokes to get communicated.MelziGurl said:
Well, what's funny is because I didn't have the experience to do a full stock take, the Area Manager who watches that particular store was meant to be there to help me. Come time to do it he was nowhere to be found, so I started on my own and practically had it done before he got there. When I put it all into the computer I'm like, "You may want to count these again, because if I'm correct your staff are either A. Stealing, B. Not recording wastage properly or C. Both. He counted the variances again and I was right.Gyrefalcon said:
It was fast food, so the place was never any good. But I'm guessing the Assistant Manager I covered for that night regreted being a ***** to me
Their whole store got first and final warnings.
Yay someone gets it. Had i said something random like 180 it might have been harder to tell but the fact I made it 1 hour longer then the hours in a week its a joke. And yes im superman because its impossible.Gyrefalcon said:
Even though I thought someone would get this sooner, you sir get a COOKIE!
Excluding schoolwork, the longest I've worked in a single shift is 15 hours. It was self-imposed. The network auditing project I was working for got canceled. I was so close to finishing the server room, that I decided to go for broke before I left. I ended up tracing, tagging, and putting into a SQL database several hundred cables before I was done.
The longest week I've had is 40 hours. I work part-time (still in school), and none of my employers have ever allowed me to go overtime.
The longest week I've had is 40 hours. I work part-time (still in school), and none of my employers have ever allowed me to go overtime.
Let's see, longest shift, 14 and a half hours. Most hours in one week, around 55-60. It was at a new job and I worked monday through saturday for six straight weeks with a lot of overtime. But I didn't really mind, I really liked that job. Too bad the place closed down...
I used to work 115 hour weeks regularly...
I'm not proud of it, it was the shittest time of my life, to think now I'm only doing 35 hours a week, it's bliss...
I'm not proud of it, it was the shittest time of my life, to think now I'm only doing 35 hours a week, it's bliss...