beks101 wrote: » I started work at 7.30am Friday morning. I've been on-shift for 18 hours. That's 18 hours with no lunch break, one coffee break where I got pulled back to my desk because of another work crisis, and two toilet breaks. I need sugar, alcohol, sleep and to punch a wall very hard. What's the longest shift you've ever worked and why? ETA: I did get free hula hoops though. BBQ beef flavour. I ate three packets.
Kevin McCloud wrote: » Worked 3 days and nights straight at silage one year, was a bad year and the weather came good for a few days so time was precious.
Frosty McSnowballs wrote: » Regularly do 24hr shifts. Mostly just trying to stay awake than actually doing stuff though. Most iv gone without a day off is about 4 months. Most iv stayed awake because of work is 10 days. Active all the time for that though.
WhiteWalls wrote: » 10 days, calling bulls""t on that one
Icemancometh wrote: » 36 hours as an intern in a regional hospital, one shift in a particularly bad 110 hour week. I've seen people do 50+ hour shifts as well.
fonecrusher1 wrote: » Worked 60+ hour shifts a number of times as a labourer a few years ago.
WhiteWalls wrote: » thats crazy, fair enough if somebody is to fall asleep at a desk but its a different story if your at the wheel with a load of grass on. How did u not fall asleep?
buyer95 wrote: » Yeah, your in death by exhaustion stage there.
Voodoomelon wrote: » Not a shift as such, but I'm currently in the middle of a 38 day stint of work, with 2 days off. The two days were weeks ago, 24 days straight since, 9 hours a pop. The joys of being self employed, a lot to be said for just walking out the door at 5.
hidinginthebush wrote: » Jaysus what were you doing that you needed to be up for 10 days?
Frosty McSnowballs wrote: » Counting 8 billion sheep
WhiteWalls wrote: » you were asleep for most of it i'd imagine
Frosty McSnowballs wrote: » Nope, awake for the whole lot of it. Had plenty of 2 to 3 minute nods throughout the 10 days but no actual sleep.
Frosty McSnowballs wrote: » Completely, simple tasks just end up confusing the fcuk out of you at that stage. I couldn't understand why I had two white hands and one black hand at the end of it. Turns out I was holding a leather glove. Head was melted altogether.
Kevin McCloud wrote: » Having nods and plenty of them is not staying awake for 10 days.
Frosty McSnowballs wrote: » A nod was just closing my eyes for 2/3 minutes at a time not sleeping for 2/3 minutes. It makes you feel worse though.
