Longest day working

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Where the hell's the option for 12+/12+?

 

[S Freud]

During the summer I work on a grass seed farm. I work six days a week at least 14 hours a day from June 25th until September 15th.

 

[Godsend1]

My longest "day" was on sea trials on the SSN652. I was a Ordnance Equipment Mechanic, after we completed an SRA(select restricted availability) we had to ride the boat and test all the work we completed. We were underway for 5 days, the longest stretch was 36hrs.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Originally posted by: S Freud
During the summer I work on a grass seed farm. I work six days a week at least 14 hours a day from June 25th until September 15th.

I used to live on a grass seed farm. 186 acres. Nothing like seeing it go up in flames in September.

 

[S Freud]

Originally posted by: Fmr12B

Originally posted by: S Freud
During the summer I work on a grass seed farm. I work six days a week at least 14 hours a day from June 25th until September 15th.

I used to live on a grass seed farm. 186 acres. Nothing like seeing it go up in flames in September.

That's pretty small compared to the one I work on, its about 8,000 acres.

 

[mcmilljb]

I've never really had an outside job, but I've helped my brother work on the yard at a house he bought. Definitely did 3+ hours outside, plus it did not have AC working yet inside so it was like working outside.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Honestly, 8+/8+ are weak options. I've worked a good number of 16, 17, 18, 19+ hours days doing renovations for a previous workplace. Both inside and outside.

 

[Slew Foot]

36 hours shifts once a week every week for a year as a surgery intern.

Manual labor? I pay people to do that for me

 

[chusteczka]

There were two separate occasions as an auxiliary ship's mechanic on a submarine during the first gulf war that I worked three work days straight with no sleep. That would be about 56 hours, like going into work on Monday morning and not leaving until the end of the day Wednesday. This included continuous work both nights. My mind was useless that third day at work.

Both of these occasions were preparing the ship to return to sea and there were numerous large repairs that needed to be made. I remember a night pulling apart the Fairbanks Morse diesel engine, with 16 cylinders and 8-1/8" diameter pistons and another night replacing the software on two of the three pistons for a leaky hydraulic accumulator at 3,000 psig that was used to steer the ship. There was also the night the sanitary pump needed to have the pistons repaired.

I do not remember too much more of the details for these specific instances since I wanted to forget they ever happened. However, I did have to research, obtain the parts, determine where the red danger tags had to be placed, route the paperwork for the repairs, and hang the tags during this time.

Then there was the time the ship was certifying for torpedo firing when we were at battlestations for a continuous day and a half while firing off the torpedos one at a time. That was the day/night I fell asleep on a tomahawk cruise missile inbetween torpedo shots.

Working 32 hours straight was common. I was so happy when I left that ship.

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[coldmeat]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Where the hell's the option for 12+/12+?

8+

12 is > 8 if you didn't know.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Originally posted by: S Freud

Originally posted by: Fmr12B

Originally posted by: S Freud
During the summer I work on a grass seed farm. I work six days a week at least 14 hours a day from June 25th until September 15th.

I used to live on a grass seed farm. 186 acres. Nothing like seeing it go up in flames in September.

That's pretty small compared to the one I work on, its about 8,000 acres.

Our farm was bordered by a few thousand more acres in Lane County - S of Eugene. We leased the land out to a family from Harrisburg that farmed 20K+ acres.

Damn near sunrise to sun-up in August the tractors would roll - cutting - then harvesting - then came the burn. Radio + AC in the giant tractors made it seem like boring work.

 

[JS80]

20 hours during merger.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: ahenkel
I worked as a CSR for Voicestream before they became t-mobile. Call volume was so high they started offering a 200.00 bonus for every 8 hours OT you worked, + time and a half for all your OT Wages. I worked 16 hours a day on my normal 4 ten shift then came in on one of my days off and worked another 16 hours for a couple months. Till they cracked down and limited it to 12 hour shifts only when scheduled

We had smilar situations at Hynix and Tektronix. They learned very quickly that a lot of folks were just milking the overtime and even honest workers slow down bit by bit after 10 hours.
Eventually they stopped all overtime.

 

[Zolty]

14 hours making decorative cement "rocks" with a bunch of mexicans, I lasted a day I didn't need $8/hr that badly.

 

[Chaotic42]

I've never really had an outside job. I've worked a 23 hour shift at McDonald's being on my feet the whole time. It's labor-ish. It was part of a 192 hour two-week period.

Inside it would be 33 hours at the radio station.

 

[SneakyStuff]

10 hour days working construction, great tan great pay .

 

[herm0016]

pretty weak from most of you.
In the past few weeks i have had 2 36 hour jobs (just got back from one. left the shop at 4am sat. morning and logged an oil well about 170 miles from here, got back to the shop about noon today and finished the paperwork and job ticket about 2:30, and a few that were in the 20s. I work in the oil field also. In college we would work 24 on some of our bigger shows in the theatre.

we work outside all year round, though the cab of our logging unit does have a/c and heat to keep the computers running.

 

[RedCOMET]

Originally posted by: herm0016
pretty weak from most of you.
In the past few weeks i have had 2 36 hour jobs (just got back from one. left the shop at 4am sat. morning and logged an oil well about 170 miles from here, got back to the shop about noon today and finished the paperwork and job ticket about 2:30, and a few that were in the 20s. I work in the oil field also. In college we would work 24 on some of our bigger shows in the theatre.

we work outside all year round, though the cab of our logging unit does have a/c and heat to keep the computers running.

Herm,

its hard to explain some of crazy hours that are done in the oil field. Granted we do get some good compesation for it.

But I'll stick to my deepwater mud logging. I rather enjoy my 14/14 schedule with fairly consistent 12 hour shifts. I just got assigned to Chevron job... brand new drillship that just got completed this year. Working on developing some more wells for Chevron's Tahiti Field.

Hows the wireline / peferating treating ya ? things been busy on land? I thought a lot of land rigs got stacked earlier this year b/c of the low price of oil.

 

[herm0016]

Originally posted by: RedCOMET

its hard to explain some of crazy hours that are done in the oil field. Granted we do get some good compesation for it.

But I'll stick to my deepwater mud logging. I rather enjoy my 14/14 schedule with fairly consistent 12 hour shifts. I just got assigned to Chevron job... brand new drillship that just got completed this year. Working on developing some more wells for Chevron's Tahiti Field.

Hows the wireline / peferating treating ya ? things been busy on land? I thought a lot of land rigs got stacked earlier this year b/c of the low price of oil.

its slowed down a little. we are picking up more odd jobs and going further from camp. I am headed down somewhere outside of vernal for a week. we have also cut prices alot.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Honestly, 8+/8+ are weak options. I've worked a good number of 16, 17, 18, 19+ hours days doing renovations for a previous workplace. Both inside and outside.

I'm surprised no one is laughing at the OP for that. 14 years old & will eventually get an introduction into the real world.

Manual labor outdoors - 14 hour + days (daylight hours) more times than I can count. About a week ago, I put in 12 hours working for my brother haying. Took a break long enough to eat a cheeseburger & some fries that were delivered to us at the barn when we were putting hay up in the loft. And stopped long enough to grab a bottle of outdoor temperature bottled water & chug it on multiple occasions. Did it for no pay - I enjoyed the hard work & he'll probably spend some time helping me with some project.

I think the longest continuous day in recent memory was 8-4 teaching, 4:30 - midnight as a cook at a busy pizza restaurant, then midnight til 4 or 5 the following afternoon remodeling a part of that restaurant. Back when I first got married & was working 2 jobs, my average work week was about 72 hours over 6 days. I did 72 hours a week for years.

 

[Glayde]

Outside:
11 hours - Did a summer driving a garbage truck. (had to work at night of course after I was done there)
Inside:
14 hours - Restaurant, same summer as the garbage truck, on a saturday. (The truck was mon-fri)

 

[sactoking]

The longest day I ever had was a 13 hour day slinging paint. Everyone no-showed for their shift at the paint store except for me and 1 other guy. He was on the road the whole day making deliveries so I had to man the front counter and do all the tract home tinting. We sold >$54,000 of paint that day. As a $2,000,000 store, that was ~2.7% of our annual take in ~.3% of our annual work time. I also had >$30,000 of paint tinted and waiting by the back door for delivery the next morning, so I figure I tinted ~7,000 gallons of paint by myself that day.

 

[SoulAssassin]

42.5 hours straight, about 3-4 hours sleep and then another 6-7 hours. Stupid DBA overwrote a table in a very important database.

 

[DesiPower]

oops, sorry, did a search and then replied to one by mistake...

 

[tontod]

36 hour shift at a remote radar site in Asia. I was so tired that as soon as I sat down, it was hard to keep my eyes open, even if I was talking to someone, LOL.