Longest period of time you have worked?

[Ih8canada]

I just got done with an 18 hour shift. I find that to be quite a few hours.

~machinelike

 

[Beau]

Last fall I worked a 44 hour shift. Catalog deadlines suck.

 

[Geekbabe]

36 hrs during a snowstorm but I was essential allied health personal in a hospital then

 

[xospec1alk]

during the xbox lauch party, i worked at the party from 12am-8am, changed into work clothes and worked from 9-5, ate a little something, took a shower, and went back the the party where i worked from 12am-8am again. not exactly 18 hours straight or anything, but i was damn tired

 

[Cerebus451]

The longest I can remember was around 18 hours. 8 AM Saturday morning to 2 AM Sunday morning. We were doing a software release that required us to update some existing data sets. The automated process we had developed kept crapping out. I got a speeding ticket on the way home too, IIRC.

 

[Ryan]

I worked for 14 hours @ Papa Johns last sunday. I'm only 17 too. I'm sure there's some kind of law against that

 

[StageLeft]

Probably no more than a 10 hour day and it wasn't all work of course anyway.

 

[Evadman]

34 hours. But I had 3 'nap" breaks of abotu an hour.

Working @ home Depot before the CEO Bernie Marcus decided to visit our store.

<baffled has the lead! >

 

[EagleKeeper]

Fri 8AM - Mon 4 PM
catnapped in empty control rooms


Nasa Launch support & Post launch debreif and breakdown

Coffee was practically IVd

 

[Beau]

If anyone needs a good recipe for something to keep you going for those extra long shifts, try taking a dose of dayquill capsules with redbull.... ZING ZING ZING ZING!!!

 

[UltraQuiet]

96 hours. Every Tactical Readiness Exercise I ever participated in. Probably about 20 of them.

 

[melly]

12 hours

 

[mpitts]

22 1/2 hours. 8AM to 6:30AM the next day

NT domain went nuts. I had to rebuild it from scratch. 35 users.

 

Personally, Ive worked 12 hours strait at most. My brother has worked 96 hours strait. Of course, I think being a firefighter bends those rules a bit.

 

[PlasticJesus]

I thought I could easily take this one with an answer of 96 hours, but I guess not.

Did 96 hours straight during the work-ups for my last Med Cruise. Was part of a Forward Command Element - the Marines and sailors that fly from the ships to something like an embassy to evacuate non-combatants or whatever else. As part of the play, some guy playing the role of an ambassador (a lot of times they use a former ambassador) will come out and typically State Department-like will say "You can't bring in 40 guys; you can only bring in 6". I was a SIGINT guy so could operate radios too and I went in to do the work of about 6 or 7 people. 96 hours straight. It can be done. I can tell you that during the last 10 of those hours I was almost useless and had a very hard time remembering my callsign.

During my third Med Cruise did 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for 3 months straight. Our ship couldn't leave the Adriatic. This during the days of UN relief flights into the old Yugoslavia. I was the lucky one that actually had work to do. A lot of the guys didn't.

 

[UltraQuiet]

thought I could easily take this one with an answer of 96 hours, but I guess not.

Remember Gunny, you and I work for the guys who make sure crew fatigue is part of the drill.

 

[baretta]

weekend job (sys admin, emergency recovery and replacement of servers.), 48 hours straight, with 'only' about 10 coffe breaks about 5-20min each and 3 hours sleep.