What's the longest single period you've worked.

[Demon-Xanth]

If you include both my job and wiring my Grandma's house, I did 5AM-9PM days for about 4 months straight. Working during the sunrise as well as working during the sunset.

 

[BAMAVOO]

27 1/2 then 4 hours sleep, then 25 hours more. I was very tired.

 

[Malfeas]

I worked several 36 hour shifts with 8 hours off between them during the december 2006 windstorm in the pacific northwest.

 

[TallBill]

36 hours, give or take a few, with maybe 4 hours of sleep on a sleep schedule. Army, various countries.

 

[FoBoT]

when i was in the Navy, attached to a submarine, we did 70 day deployments

 

[Nitemare]

14-16 hours probably

 

[adairusmc]

48 hours, with one small break for a nap. I was in the Marine Corps at the time.

 

[thraashman]

Worst I ever did was probably some of my 8:30am to 11:30pm shifts on different projects at work. Luckily for my I take the local mass transit which doesn't run past 1am or else I'd have been there another few hours. It was fun however because at that job I got overtime pay, and I think I was still receiving time and a half at that level. Though since my pay rate was so shitty, time and a half still was quite a bit less than I get now.

 

[hanoverphist]

when i was a silk screener, i worked 530am to 6pm, went home and had dinner, went back to work at 830pm and worked until 6am the next day. i also had to be back at work at 11am that day to make sure the shipment went out on time and good. worked until 9pm that nite too. sucked, no bonuses for the extra work. i also didnt even get comp time, had to finish out the rest of the week like normal.


edit:

didnt even think of it, but when i was a stage hand (local) stadium concerts take many days to set up. for paul mccartney at asu stadium, we worked 16 on 6 off for 4 days to set up, and 37 hours straight to tear down. 165 trucks, with 90 of them being steel. those 6 off hours were usually spent either at the bar down t he road or sleeping in the stadium. same thing for the U2 show, and the new years evil black sabbath show. that one was longer tho, it was the first stop on the tour so we had to do a bunch more set up and configuring of the stage/ set. tear down took forever too, since it had never been fully packed for the road yet. went from 230 trucks down to like 170ish. i cant remember anymore. that job also set a lot of records for me ass far as continuous long ass shifts. start setting up at 7am, work until 5pm. come back at 8 for deck call and stay until 3am loading up, just to be back at a new show the next day at 7am. theres a reason theres so much drug use in that business. not a good one, but they use it. i never did drugs to stay awake.

 

[will889]

51 hours and BravoZulu.

 

[ggnl]

When I worked 2 jobs during college, every friday I would do 8am-5pm at job 1 then 6pm-2am at job 2. It wasn't that bad, strangely, because the jobs were nothing like each other, but GD am I glad I don't have to do it anymore.

 

[SoulAssassin]

42.5 hours straight...maybe 4-5 hours of sleep but I couldn't really fall asleep then another 8-10 hours.

Stupid Oracle DBA overwrote some tables in a huge prod database. We had just inherited control of the servers from a tech group within the business unit and the way they were doing archive log backups was crap. It was missing maybe 1 out of 50 archive logs and you can't do a valid restore if you're missing a log in the middle of the sequence. The data was replicated elsewhere so we had to restore it there and then the DBA's replicated it back. Major loss of $$ during this time.

 

[ViviTheMage]

few days on a farm

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: Czar
I think it was 21-22 hours, hard labour ... with brakes when needed

Doing what?

putting these things down, dont know what its called in english

 

[sonambulo]

34 hours in a factory. 8 hours packaging (my dept), 8 hours inventory, 8 hours production, 8 hours packaging, 2 hours paperwork. In all fairness I did get a half hour meal break and 15 minutes rest break for every 8 hours worked BUT those didn't count worked hours so I was actually in the building over 37 hours.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

5 years of 60 to 80 hour weeks. Never got a raise or a bonus. Wage slave anyone?

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

22 hours during my first network migration. We went from Novell to NT 4.0. Everything was smooth with only one call to Microsoft needed and it lasted about 5 1/2 hours.

 

[BornStar]

I worked 8:30am-2:30am and then showed up again 5 hours later and worked from 7:30am-6:30pm which works out to 18 hours followed by 11 hours. That's not something I really want to do again.

 

[Drako]

I've done a few 32 to 36 hour shifts in my younger more energetic years. This was when I was supporting a manufacturing line, and we were trying to fulfill end of quarter orders. I don't think I could pull that off anymore - it's hell getting old.

 

[aplefka]

I have a buddy who has done a couple 20+ hour ones, I think the top was 28 hours. He's a service technician for an AC company that does corporate units. I think the 28 hour job was at LAX, not sure though.

 

[Casawi]

23hours straight. From 7:30am until 6:30am, we had a demo for DoD in NJ. I went home at 6:30am took a 2 hour nap and came back for a meeting, and then I completely fell asleep at the meeting. I didn't get in trouble because everyone understood the shiet we were going thru.
The demo was a success ... so it was worth it

 

[maddogchen]

24 Hours, went to site at 8:30 AM, set up equipment at 3 sites 20 miles apart, tested systems, waited till 12 midnight, brought down system, loaded up new network, network failed to communicate with all 3 sites, troubleshooted, fixed, brought up system, cleaned up, returned to hotel at 9:30AM the next day.