your longest workday? i just finished 16 hours

[Piano Man]

Well, it wasn't work, just finals and papers. I stayed awake for 73 hours. I sh!t you not, I was working the whole damn time too. No naps, no nothing. Just a lot of caffeine pills and about 20 cold showers. I will never ever do that again. The last thing I had to do was perform my jury pieces (music major). I kept thinking that someone was turning off the lights, but I found out it was just me. Oh, I slept for 26 hours straight after that.

 

[Megatomic]

My longest workday occured when I was in the Navy. I was a Nuke ET and we had a SCRAM breaker fail during Rod Testing. No one in my division slept for over 2 days and we only got 2 meal breaks during that time. It was awful.


Btw, this occured when my ship was on station in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.

 

[Phuz]

I guess I don't have it as bad as some... but..

I'm 19.. work 50 hours a week and commute one hour to and from work, 6 days a week. Work is a good distraction for now.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

30 hours a few times

 

[DaFinn]

Uhh,

Does taking customers out count? I've pulled 12 hours at an exhibition, and gone directly from there with customers to dinner and ...umm, a night out. Done it several times. Worst is 22 hours! And yes, it is BAD! The next day at exhibition is also BAD, very BAD!

I go to several Fairs/Exhitions a year that go for 5 days, with just a couple of hours of sleep/day. Every night going out with different customers. I tell you its HARD WORK! After 3 days (and nights) you're totally dead. Even if you don't drink (much) the lack of sleep is BAD.


Its great being a sales rep!

 

[murphy55d]

9 or 10

 

[KC5AV]

I've had a couple of 21 hour shifts.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

I've done 9AM 'til 3AM while re-installing a network with a deadline looming...
Fun...

 

[mpitts]

22 straight hours.

Nothing like recreating an entire NT domain with 4 DCs.

 

[MichaelD]

16 hours? NEWBIE!!!!!

I've done somewhere around 42-43 hours before. Almost wrecked my car on the way home, too. :|

I routinely do 18-20 hour days now. (Two jobs) I'll sleep when I'm dead.

 

[polm]

48 !

TOP THAT !

 

[Maverick]

jesus...you guys are all gonna bring yourselves to an early grave. Is work really THAT important to you guys?

 

[dakata24]

22 hrs on election day..

 

[Scarpozzi]

2 hours is my longest work day.

 

[deerslayer]

I worked 10 hour shifts on an assembly line/factory this summer, but that's the longest I've ever had to work

 

[mcveigh]

22 hours no overtime in the Corps

that was on ship had to replace the air component of a magtaf. don't know how many days I stayed awake in the field.

 

[tcsenter]

I've pulled a few 24 hour shifts, with only a couple 'naps' in the entire 24 hours. More doubles than I can remember. But that was before my narcolepsy symptoms appeared. Today, you'd be lucky if you got four hours out of me before I needed a nap.

I've done somewhere around 42-43 hours before. Almost wrecked my car on the way home, too.

Almost? I've wrecked two cars falling asleep at the wheel.

God only knows how many 'near' accidents I had, waking up in the opposing lane of traffic, looking at a suburban or Peterbuilt. :Q

 

[Karsten]

If the Army counts... about 2 1/2 days. Regular real life work... about 20 I think.

 

[Rogue]

I worked for 52 hours straight when the Love Bug virus hit my site. I had to go machine to machine cleaning and ensuring that they were properly updated with the new virus definition files. That was one of the longest days (or two or three) in my life. It was all started by my fiance too!

 

[fluxquantum]

0 hours ever since being unemployed

 

[apoppin]

My longest work shift (when I was young and stupid and a manager for a big company that needed to fire most of the old restaurant crew and completely train an entire brand new crew) began 5 am Friday and ended late Sunday night. No sleep but I did manage to shave and shower on short "breaks". I'd guess I went through at least 3 pots of coffee.

After that, I swore, "never again".

 

[FuzzyBee]

20 hrs a day for a week straight last year during the olympics.

after that, i just said screw it and let things sort of flow on their own.

 

[FuzzyBee]

I'd guess I went through at least 3 pots of coffee.

weenie! back when i was a kid, we'd drink three pots of coffee for breakfast, and we didn't complain about stomach aches because we like 'em. no, we loved 'em!

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: fuzzy bee

I'd guess I went through at least 3 pots of coffee.

weenie! back when i was a kid, we'd drink three pots of coffee for breakfast, and we didn't complain about stomach aches because we like 'em. no, we loved 'em!

RESTAURANT pots of coffee. ANd I am probably guilty of UNDERexaggeration . . . I regularly drank a pot of coffee a day back in the day - I guess I meant I went through 3 EXTRA pots of coffee through my 65-hour shift.

Weenie yourself!

 

[Mark R]

I do 28 hour shifts once a week.

It's only 28 because the next day is supposed to be a half-day. About 1/3-1/2 the time, I can't take the rest of the day off, so have to finish at the normal time, taking the shift to 32 hours. (Of course, that assumes I finished all the work by then - usually, I'm not too efficient after 24 hours work, so things take longer than they normally do).

In a previous, busier job, it was so busy, that I sometimes didn't have time even to take a break in the full 32 hour shift.

Outside of formal employment, I've worked 60 hours straight on typesetting a magazine - this relied on exceptional amounts of 'red hot lava java' coffee, and a lot of sleep afterwards.