What is the longest shift you have ever worked? [excluding military ;) ]

[PantheraTigris2]

I'm embarking on something, that I personally have never yet done as a civilian... but have always wanted to do - since I am paid by the hour... along with Sunday premium (+25% per hour), with night differential (+10% per hour), as well as overtime (+50% per hour)... $$$

Sure, I've worked plenty of 16-hour (double)-shifts in my day. But NOW, I think the opportunity has finally presented itself... for the full 24-hr 'work day'.

Oh YEAH!! Can you FEEL the excitment?? Because I can. I'm really looking forward to this. So far, I'm 9 hours into my 24. You night-owls have gotta give me some inspiration. I may 'get distracted' from time to time. But I'll try to make it through this marathon shift and check in from time to time.

$$$

Repeat after me... "CHA-CHING!! CHA-CHING!!!"

 

[Godwynn]

10 hours at Burger King, they paid me no extra. 3p.m. - 1a.m.

 

[Perfection]

Good, you'll finally be able to pay off that $500 you owe me!
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[Zukatah]

If worked multiple 18 hours (12 hours regular shift + 6 hours overtime) but they don't let us work more than that. I know someone who worked as a mechanic (at the same place that I worked at) that worked for 48 straight hours. At least he could snatch some sleep in that but he wasn't all that coherent after that shift!

 

[JollyRoger]

8 am to 3 am. I was working in a non-attorney role at a large law firm. My usual shift was 2 pm to 10 pm, but for a six week period, I was also working from 8am to 2 pm in the firm's law library as they were temporarily short-handed. As for my 2 pm - 10 pm shift, if there was a big corporate deal going on, I would stay as late as the attorneys in the corporate group. One night, during this six week period, they were in a big negotiation conference until 3 am.

 

[ainwood]

6:00 am one morning until about 4:30 am the next (although I took a few hours off for meals etc). Was working on my parent's farm, making silage. We had a breakdown and needed to get it fixed before we started the next morning. My father had also started at 6:00am with me, the difference being that he didn't knock-off at 4:30am the next morning - he worked through to 10:00pm that night (a 40-hour shift).

 

[PantheraTigris2]

Good, you'll finally be able to pay off that $500 you owe me!

Yeah, after doing the math, I figure I could pay you back your $500, drive a good distance (with a car that gets crappy gas mileage) to a fancy restaurant, treat us to a nice meal, and still have some left over for the tip!

...that is, IF I owed you half a grand!

 

[Bamspeedy]

What kind of job PantheraTigris2?

Longest shift for me was a 17 hour shift a couple weeks ago. Then the next day worked 15 hours. Another 1.5 hours for each day if you include driving to and from work. The company headquarters screwed up and increased EVERY stores inventory by 30%, instead of just increasing one store's inventory. The stores ran out of room to store anything because we sent them too much stuff!

This is manual labor, where I'm ALWAYS moving (walking, lifting/stacking cases) According to the company's production standards, I did 40 hours worth of work in 2 days (24+16) Set an 'un-official' record for most cases picked in one day on the first day. My legs were cramping up at the end of the first day to the point that when my carpool dropped me off at my vehicle there was a cop parked next to me and I almost thought he would think I was drunk because I was staggering a bit because of my legs cramping up. But if the job wasn't physically demanding, I think I'd fall asleep on the job.

 

[PantheraTigris2]

What kind of job PantheraTigris2?

Alright, here's how my 'scheme' came to pass:

I normally work 3pm-11pm. 5 days a week (40 hrs total)
HOWEVER... this coming week, I will be on assignment in Washington, D.C. - so according to the work schedule (for pay purposes), I was temporarily transferred to 1st shift (works 7am-3pm) for this week... which of course, I naturally will not really be working, since I'm out of town.

The schedule (or pay period) begins on Sunday. So, this past week, I had been working my normal schedule (including Saturday 3pm-11pm), and for the new week (beginning Sunday) I was on for 7am-3pm. In other words, I was SUPPOSED to go home tonight, get a measely 6 hrs of sleep (if I was lucky - 3 or 4 more realistically)... and then return at 7 the next morning.

BUT... there was a schedule change... for the person that was supposed to work the night shift (11pm-7am), and this change has apparently caught someone off guard. I suspect the person that had been 'changed' into working the shift has either forgotten about it, or wasn't aware (didn't pay close attention to the schedule, assuming it was just 'business as normal')... I don't know. The change was made 'on the fly' in the middle of the pay period (2 weeks), so maybe they weren't notified... heck who knows.

At any rate, I am poised to take the whole 24 hours for myself. Which really, is just as well, as far as I'm concerned. The only thing I was going to do at home, that I can't do here - is brush my teeth (and EAT/ get more food... something I'm going to have to 'improvise' a plan for... ), so I'm perfectly content.

Man, these 24-hr shifts are great, really. I was just saying the other day, I wish I could work 20 hrs straight, get a few hours off, enough time to relax and sleep comfortably, then come back and do another 20... then have a 4 1/2-day weekend or whatever it would be.

edit: oh, what 'kind' of job?
A very effortless one (physically)!... and at night, on a weekend? hhmm....

 

[De Lorimier]

Back when I was cleaning mall's parking lot at night for a living (worst job I ever had) I once did a shift wich started at 11H00pm and ended the next day at 5H00pm.

That "next day" happened to be my birthday and I didn't go to sleep until the day after that. I still look back to this as one of my happiest birthdays ever, since I was so tired but I still managed to have a great time at my parent's cabin with some close friends playing cards, drinking and eating some mushrooms (for..the...spaghetti...sauce! )

 

[Fifty]

I've only been working now for about a month, but I've chalked up a 13 hour day, and a couple 11-12 hour days.

I do banquets at a restaurant, and long days happen when you need to set up early in the morning for a wedding or something of that nature, then work the wedding all day (and often into the evening) then clean up after they leave, then reset everything for the next event.

 

[PantheraTigris2]

As long as you guys are getting paid by the hour (along with overtime where applicable) - more power to ya.

Man, I'm thinking of making a run for it - to get some supplies. I wasn't prepared to be here this long. I only brought 8 hrs worth of water (2 liters/ half a gallon). And they've had a problem with the upstairs water fountain recently (in fact it's currently OTS) with some sewage backing up into the pipes - or something like that! So, no way I'm drinking even from the downstairs fountain.

Plus, I need some food. All the food you could ever want is back home. A real quick commute. Plus I need to program my VCR for the Italian Grand Prix iin the morning. That's it. I'm going for it.... no one will ever know.

*activates temporary 'out of office' voicemail feature on all phone lines...*



Plus, once I get back, I'll have a good meal, and maybe catch a 3 or 4 hour good nap until the pre-race show comes on... I'll just let the sunrise wake me up. MAN! What hard work it is being a gov't employee. I am totally stressed out and exhausted!

 

[Yom]

I've only worked like a 6 hour shift (part-time), but I've worked a heck of a lot if you count school work. Counting school work, I've done 30 out of 35 hours working before. 20 hours straight, then sleep for 5 hours, school work for 5 more hours, and then paid work for 5 hours. This past week I've been working (school work, that is, little paid work) about all day save an hour or two of relaxation and an average of 4.5 hours of sleep. Hopefully my sleep schedule will even out by next week. If you've seen the movie spun, that's kind of what I feel like right now. I'm tired, but I just don't feel like sleeping (surprising, considering I've been running cross country all this time too, ).

 

[stratego]

Over the summer I had a regular 16 hr job, from 5:45am to 11pm. twice a week.

 

[ManOfMiracles]

I think the longest I ever worked was 18 hours. The supervisor was gone (her 4-month-old was very ill), one co-worker was on maternity leave, another was doing his two weeks for National Guard, another had just moved away and was not yet replaced. The person who came in mid-shift was on vacation and had more seniority than any of the rest of us so she wouldn't work. That left me and one person who was employed by the company for less than one month (I was still training her). Luckily I knew how to do all the supervisory stuff and can work really fast. The department head was still mad when she saw the two of us from third shift were still there working when the first shift employees went home (they wouldn't help us with "our" work). We only had to work at that pace for about a week and then the others started returning. Nice money while it lasted.

I actually worked that long or maybe longer when I was a college bursar/accountant but I was salaried so didn't really keep track. I regularly worked at least 12 hour days and took work home or came in on weekends with that job. I got burned out really fast and quit. It was ridiculous to work so many hours for such a measly salary since it meant I was effectively making less per hour than the people I supervised. Also took some of the fun out of being a newlywed.

 

[Phantom Lord]

Back when I worked in a new economy software corporation, 24 hr shifts (or even longer) were not that unusual, e. g. when a release date was approaching. Sometimes it was difficult to tell if it was party or work though. Needless to say the overtime wasn't paid - we worked for the cause and - of course - stock options.

The whole new economy thing was fun in its own way and everyone actually believed the whole hype. I really enjoyed it up to a certain point around 2000, when the whole big bubble started to burst.

 

[Dell19]

Probably around 8 hours.

 

[nonconformist]

I'm part of a sorta enterprise thing, I'mIT and marketing, so I don't worjk shifts as such, I just work when I can be bothered. Also, as a sorta collective, we each get equal cuts though we haven't any revenue yet (we haven't officially started).

 

[Quasar1011]

In March of 1993, working at the weather station in Birmingham AL, me and an air traffic controller were stranded by the "storm of the century". I got to take the record reading of 13 inches of snow! But I was there from Friday evening until Monday morning, so that totals something like 60 hours.

In February of 1996, working at the same place, Birmingham experienced the "Groundhog Day Ice Storm". Nobody could get in to relieve me for 4 days.
So, 1/2 an inch of ice kept me stranded longer than 13 inches of snow! So I guess my final answer is approximately 96 hours.

 

[FearlessLeader2]

As a security guard, I would frequently be left high and dry by my supervisors and have to cover 20 hours before someone would relieve me.

The worst stretch of hard time I ever did was in 2001. Two guys quit our office, and to maintain 24-hour, 365 day coverage, 3 men worked as follows:
Sun-Thu 7a-7p
Tue-Sat 7p-7a (ME)
Fri-Sat 7a-7p + Sun-Mon 7p-7a

This happened from Febuary to May, during which I only saw the sun two days a week. Toward the end, I would be driving home and 'wake up' 30 miles past my freeway exit, having been road hypnotized.