Whats the longest shift you have ever worked?
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RedWolf
Deity
I've done those - continental shifts. We used to alernate days and nights - 7AM - 7PM or 7PM to 7AM.
So it went:
2 Days
2 off
2 Nights
2 off
2 Days
2 Off
2 Nights
etc.
The variation was when you hit a weekend - we either worked (Nights or Days depending on where you were in the rotation) FRI, SAT, SUN or had the three off alternatively.
Screwed with your head going back and forth but it was killer money for a college student, you knew all summer which days you worked and which you had off and time off during the week was nice for doing banking, appointments etc. Plus they paid a shift premium for the Nights and you ended up with 4 hour overtime every period at time and a half.
What do you do for a living?
I'm a programmer.
Shylock
Hey smiling strange
With school- 8am to 12 am. With about 2 or 3 hours of lunch and a layover between school and work. This always happens on a Friday.
But considering school is easy and is only as demanding as I want it to be (I sleep in class a lot, one of my periods is fixing computers) then work is 8 hours not counting lunches. I can work to midnight on Friday and Saturdays if they have me doing it.
But considering school is easy and is only as demanding as I want it to be (I sleep in class a lot, one of my periods is fixing computers) then work is 8 hours not counting lunches. I can work to midnight on Friday and Saturdays if they have me doing it.
Who sets your hours?
RedWolf
Deity
What's the point of a work week like that? Just because one is putting in the hours it doesn't mean they're effective.
How many days in a row can a programmer do anything intelligent without mistakes while working 12+ hours? For me - not many. In any given day - past 12 maybe 13 hours of staring at a computer screen - I'm worthless.
Only crappy employers demand that kind of work from their employees. It encourages burnout and high turnover. My employer is more concerned about me not quitting because nobody else their understands the technology I work with well enough to do what I do.
My boss says to not work more than 40 hours per week, but when he says that he's lying. He's just trying to cover his own ass when he says that.
Over here, we have a bunch of artificial deadlines which must be met. So, if I'm falling behind, then I have to work extra hours to compensate.
The current project I'm on is huge and requires a tremendous amount of work. The managers saw fit to give me plenty of work, more than the other people. How nice.
Right now, we have a project which requires at a minimum two more months of development time. We have to finish in 15 days. Judging by how much I and my coworkers have worked, the realistic development time would be 4 more months if we only worked 40 hours per week. But no, the managers wouldn't want that.
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
The longest I have worked is only 8.5 hours.
CaptainF
The Professional Poster
7 hours, no breaks, like MJM.
Otkell
Chieftain
The longest ive work is 17 hours.
The guy who was suppose to replace me didnt show up so i had to do his shift after mine.
The guy who was suppose to replace me didnt show up so i had to do his shift after mine.
boarder
King
When i worked on commercial fishing boats during the Hoki season we used to go into the cook straight and fill the boat in around 4 days (usually wed be out for 10 days and hardly ever fill up) and we wouldnt get any sleep or real breaks during that 3 or 4 days, you dont know tired till youve worked 70 hours straight, and thats hard physical work, great money though.
On a factory boat i also worked on we would go to sea for two six week trips on then one six week trip off, and we would do 12 hour shifts seven days a week, but at least we got those 12 hours off a day.
Also a long liner I worked on for a bit we would go out for around 7 days and work from about 5am after having finished work at around 2 or 3 am, but those two or three hours where bliss.
On a factory boat i also worked on we would go to sea for two six week trips on then one six week trip off, and we would do 12 hour shifts seven days a week, but at least we got those 12 hours off a day.
Also a long liner I worked on for a bit we would go out for around 7 days and work from about 5am after having finished work at around 2 or 3 am, but those two or three hours where bliss.
punkbass2000
Des An artiste
I just finished a 12.5 hour shift with a 2-hour meeting prior to it. A couple weeks ago I worked 14. That's about as much as I've done, but it's not uncommon.
woody60707
Deity
10hrs, or 19hrs if you count working two 8 hr jobs back to back with about 45min in between to get from one site to the other and a bite to eat. Only did that once tho. Last day of one job, first day (well 2nd if you count training day) of another.
If you want to count U.S. Marine as a job, then around 50 something hrs. (counting a shift as being allowed to sleep, going 50/50, not needing to be alert.)
If you want to count U.S. Marine as a job, then around 50 something hrs. (counting a shift as being allowed to sleep, going 50/50, not needing to be alert.)
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
I routinely work 10-12 hour shifts. We call them "weekend warriors" where I work, people who work 11-11 fri-sat-sun. I get screwed with them quite a bit.
But the single longest shift I've ever worked was an open-close, from 8AM to 1AM the next morning; 17 hours. I was back at work at 11 the next morning to shift lead. Weirdest part was, I wasn't tired through all of that, just a bottomless pit of energy.
woody60707
Deity
LOL, Did they ever found out?
Flak
vBülletin Förum
Well, as a salaried employee, I never really worked a 'shift'. But I have done several overnight sessions thus effectively working 36+ hours consecutively. This was always when there were big projects that had to get done with the deadline on the horizon.
In college, I'm sure I pulled a few 15 - 16 hours shifts here and there.
In college, I'm sure I pulled a few 15 - 16 hours shifts here and there.
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