Long long ass work month coming to an end... what's the most you've ever worked at an hourly paid job?..

[Locut0s]

As many know from my previous posts I work at a local retail store 7-11 as an assistant manager.

So my managers father passed away a few weeks back (feel sorry for my manager as his father really suffered, esophageal cancer, couldn't eat or drink anything for months, couldn't breath at the end) and he had to leave at the drop of a hat. We were already REALLY short staffed so that left me running the store for about 2 weeks and I had a guy stealing cash from us at a rate of about 150 bucks a day, we finally fired the guy latter. So that was 13 days straight of about 10 hour days. Then that ran right into the celebration of lights fireworks weeks we have every year (hundreds of thousands of people down by the beach swamping my store it's utter hell on those days but it's basically our financial Christmas). That means another 2 6 day weeks with 2 double shifts (working 7am-11pm then coming back the next day 7am-3pm). Then we have the Gay Pride parade this Sunday that will be nuts too My manager, being gay himself, will be taking a few days off for that. Oh well it all ends in a week or so. Then I'm taking some days off. This is going to be my last year at this job, that will make it 3+ years. Saved up enough money I'm going back to university.

What's the most you've ever worked during a 1-2 month period at an hourly salaried job?

 

[DrumminBoy]

I just started a new job where I'll be working 10-12 hour days 7 days a week for 3-8 weeks at a time, depending on the project. I get paid hourly, so ~40% of my hours will be time and a half. I anticipate working 70 hours a week at the very least when I'm on the job site, but could approach 100 if things aren't going smoothly. The upside of all of this is that the company pays for everything (travel, mileage, generous food stipend, hotel/apartment, etc) and I get 2-3 weeks off at a time.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: DrumminBoy
I just started a new job where I'll be working 10-12 hour days 7 days a week for 3-8 weeks at a time, depending on the project. I get paid hourly, so ~40% of my hours will be time and a half. I anticipate working 70 hours a week at the very least when I'm on the job site, but could approach 100 if things aren't going smoothly. The upside of all of this is that the company pays for everything (travel, mileage, generous food stipend, hotel/apartment, etc) and I get 2-3 weeks off at a time.

What type of work? That makes ALL the difference! As long as it's something you can stand doing for those hours it sounds like a nice paying job!

I actually usually like this job but customer service isn't for everyone and after many many hours it can even get to me. I swear some of the stupidity we have to put up with could melt lead.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
As many know from my previous posts I work at a local retail store 7-11 as an assistant manager.

So my managers father passed away a few weeks back (feel sorry for my manager as his father really suffered, esophageal cancer, couldn't eat or drink anything for months, couldn't breath at the end) and he had to leave at the drop of a hat. We were already REALLY short staffed so that left me running the store for about 2 weeks and I had a guy stealing cash from us at a rate of about 150 bucks a day, we finally fired the guy latter. So that was 13 days straight of about 10 hour days. Then that ran right into the celebration of lights fireworks weeks we have every year (hundreds of thousands of people down by the beach swamping my store it's utter hell on those days but it's basically our financial Christmas). That means another 2 6 day weeks with 2 double shifts (working 7am-11pm then coming back the next day 7am-3pm). Then we have the Gay Pride parade this Sunday that will be nuts too My manager, being gay himself, will be taking a few days off for that. Oh well it all ends in a week or so. Then I'm taking some days off. This is going to be my last year at this job, that will make it 3+ years. Saved up enough money I'm going back to university.

What's the most you've ever worked during a 1-2 month period at an hourly salaried job?

how much does an asst mgr at 7-11 make? (hope u got time and half)

as for me, i've done 7x12 for a month straight. yeah for being salaried but the huge bonus was nice :Smile;

 

[Colt45]

maybe 46 hours in a week. I like the fact that people fought for my 40hr workweek.

 

[pontifex]

112 hours over 12 days. this was during one phase of our network transition into the company that bought us.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: Locut0s
As many know from my previous posts I work at a local retail store 7-11 as an assistant manager.

So my managers father passed away a few weeks back (feel sorry for my manager as his father really suffered, esophageal cancer, couldn't eat or drink anything for months, couldn't breath at the end) and he had to leave at the drop of a hat. We were already REALLY short staffed so that left me running the store for about 2 weeks and I had a guy stealing cash from us at a rate of about 150 bucks a day, we finally fired the guy latter. So that was 13 days straight of about 10 hour days. Then that ran right into the celebration of lights fireworks weeks we have every year (hundreds of thousands of people down by the beach swamping my store it's utter hell on those days but it's basically our financial Christmas). That means another 2 6 day weeks with 2 double shifts (working 7am-11pm then coming back the next day 7am-3pm). Then we have the Gay Pride parade this Sunday that will be nuts too My manager, being gay himself, will be taking a few days off for that. Oh well it all ends in a week or so. Then I'm taking some days off. This is going to be my last year at this job, that will make it 3+ years. Saved up enough money I'm going back to university.

What's the most you've ever worked during a 1-2 month period at an hourly salaried job?

how much does an asst mgr at 7-11 make? (hope u got time and half)

as for me, i've done 7x12 for a month straight. yeah for being salaried but the huge bonus was nice :Smile;

Making $14/hr and yes everything over 8hr per day and anything past 5 days per week was all time and a half.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: pontifex
112 hours over 12 days. this was during one phase of our network transition into the company that bought us.

I was going to say that sounded nuts but it works out to under 10 hours per day for 12 days, not too too bad but not good either.

 

[alkemyst]

in the mid 90's the company I worked for was doing huge deals. They allowed me to stay on hourly as the salary structure they had would have sucked for me to go that way until I had 5 or more reports.

A few times for big deals I worked 3 days straight usually after flying back in from across the country. I'd go home/to a hotel for a quick bite to eat and shower.

I was making a ton more money compared to now esp considering my house which was bigger and in a nicer location was 1/3 the cost of my current one about 10 years later.

 

[herm0016]

working on 2 wind energy projects, one in Iowa, one in Wisconsin. i put in about 160 hours in 12 days, Monday to the next Friday. I did not see my apartment for 2 weeks. man, that was a good paycheck though.

 

[gar3555]

127 - 1st week,
94 - 2nd week,
90 - 3rd week,
84 - 4th week,

It was in August of '06

 

[BoomerD]

I used to work a LOT of refinery shut-downs. 7-12's for 2-3 months, then take a couple of weeks off, and back at it again. Added to the 12-1/2hour work day was a 3 to 5 hour commute every day. THAT got pretty old. By the end of the shut-down, I was ready for some rest...

 

[stevty2889]

Just recently did a streach of 13 12 hour days in a row, followed by 1 day off, then then 4 more 12 hour days.

 

[Engineer]

Averaged 106 hours per week for 6 straight weeks at end of 2005 including working around 40+ days or so without a day off. Around 1,500 hours of OT for the year.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Averaged 106 hours per week for 6 straight weeks at end of 2005 including working around 40+ days or so without a day off. Around 1,500 hours of OT for the year.

And as we discussed in a different thread, it's worked SOOOOO well for your long-term career...:roll:
Any word from that other company yet?

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: pontifex
112 hours over 12 days. this was during one phase of our network transition into the company that bought us.

I was going to say that sounded nuts but it works out to under 10 hours per day for 12 days, not too too bad but not good either.

it was like 32 hours of OT for me. Most I've ever worked in that amount of time.

 

[GoingUp]

130 hours of overtime in a month I think was my record.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

One of my first jobs, was a dishwasher/busboy at a waffle house. I still remember to this day, working 74 hours in one week. My take home pay was 76 dollars.

 

[911paramedic]

Being a veteran, I'm going to say "all of them", as will many others that are/were in the military.

Civilian? Hard to say, but I used to do MANY 12 hour (and a few 24 hour shifts) in a month. It was up to me after the first 48/wk but the OT was great so I took on the extra shifts.

 

[olds]

Real life = 33 straight 12+ hours days.
Army = At least that much

 

[BurnItDwn]

I never "had to" work more than 40 hours.
That said, Time and a Half pay always used to tempt me.

I've done some AM shift at one site, PM shift at another site, and Overnight work at another site 24 hour days before ... In a week, the worst was around 90 hours. I never maintained that type of schedule for a whole month or anything though. Maybe 250 or so hours in a month was my cap.

That was in the summer when I was in college, and the year after I dropped out of college ...
A year later, I got a job with 25% better pay, but less overtime opportunity, and I actually made less money ....

 

[her209]

180 hours over a 2 week period.

 

[clamum]

I've worked 45-55 hrs/week or so for the best three months probably. Usually it's 40 hrs/week.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Worked for Loral on contract in 1997 as a managing editor for a 600 million dollar proposal. 37 days with one day off, averaging 14 - 20 hours a day, with the final 2 days working a straight 36 hours. The last week I billed them for 108 hours. Twas brutal. Made a load of cash though since they were paying me 40 bucks an hour.

 

[DrPizza]

After I "retired" from the pizza place, the owner's son was getting married in another state. They asked if I could fill in for a few shifts that week, since most of the employees who had worked there for years wanted to attend. I worked every day from open to close, and a few days came in at 8am to clean, or 9am to make salads. So, every day was at least 13 hours long, some 16 hours long, for 8 straight days. And, over the years there were plenty of occasions when I worked my full time job 8 to 4, M-F (40 hrs), then worked 5-12 M-F, and 15 to 20 more hours on the weekend.