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Longest work shift

  • 13-12-2014 02:33AM
    #1
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    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.


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  • #2
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,004 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    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.

    Are ye prepared to Blow a Whistle ? :(


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #3
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    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.


  • #4
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    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.


  • #5
    Icemancometh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Icemancometh


    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.


  • #6
    MrCreosote
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    Saturday 10am to Monday 6pm- no sleep. Driving home after that was interesting to say the least.


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  • #7
    PucaMama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    and i thought the 12 hour nursing shifts were bad :o


  • #8
    WhiteWalls
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    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.

    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?


  • #9
    Jen Pigs Fly
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    My longest was 8am Thursday morning until 4.30am Friday morning - 20.5 hour shift. Went home slept for 4 hours and then back in to do a 9am-9pm shift.


    Never felt anything like it was dead on my feet by the end of it!


  • #10
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Worked 60+ hour shifts a number of times as a labourer a few years ago.


  • #11
    WhiteWalls
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    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.

    10 days, calling bulls""t on that one


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  • #12
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    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.

    Jaysus what were you doing that you needed to be up for 10 days?


  • #13
    buyer95
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    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    10 days, calling bulls""t on that one

    Yeah, your in death by exhaustion stage there.


  • #14
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    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.
    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.
    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Worked 60+ hour shifts a number of times as a labourer a few years ago.


    WHAT THE FCUKING FCUK.
    YOU PEOPLE NEED TO TAKE A HOLIDAY.


  • #15
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    10 days, calling bulls""t on that one

    It was a once off, your body is an amazing machine.


  • #16
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    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?

    I was young at the time and little sleep used do me anyway. Its a hard one to explain as you would be on the verge of falling asleep but open the window or have a smoke do something and a second wind would kick in. In the finish it was getting dangerous and stupid, be a fine thing if i was drunk driving compared to sleep deprivation.


  • #17
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    buyer95 wrote: »
    Yeah, your in death by exhaustion stage there.

    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.


  • #18
    Voodoomelon
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    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.


  • #19
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭WhiteWalls


    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.

    bet your looking forward to the prostitutes and cocaine at xmas tho?


  • #20
    AnonoBoy
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    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    Jaysus what were you doing that you needed to be up for 10 days?

    A f*ck load of cheap amphetamines?


  • #21
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    They can take what they like as I sleep on the floor.


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  • #22
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    Jaysus what were you doing that you needed to be up for 10 days?

    Counting 8 billion sheep :)


  • #23
    WhiteWalls
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    Frosty McSnowballs wrote: »
    Counting 8 billion sheep :)

    you were asleep for most of it i'd imagine


  • #24
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    you were asleep for most of it i'd imagine

    Nope, awake for the whole lot of it. Had plenty of 2 to 3 minute nods throughout the 10 days but no actual sleep.

    It wasn't pleasant but it can be done. Enough about me, so, what has been your longest shift?


  • #25
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    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.

    Having nods and plenty of them is not staying awake for 10 days.


  • #26
    beks101
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    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.

    Yeah kinda at that stage right now. Where your brain turns to mush and you can't process anything.

    Reading over emails three or four times and it's just a jumble of words splattered on a screen with no meaning whatsoever. I forgot the word for "printer" about an hour ago. "Can you go and grab that hard copy, it's over at the - the - that yoke thing over there..."


  • #27
    petrolcan
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    Longest I've done is 140(ish) hours straight. I did get to sleep for a few hours at night though. Couldn't do it now as the OH would be mightily pissed.


  • #28
    h2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭h2005


    Is someone actually claiming to be up for 10 days straight?????????


  • #29
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Having nods and plenty of them is not staying awake for 10 days.

    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.


  • #30
    xXxkorixXx
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    My husband worked 21hrs one day


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  • #31
    h2005
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    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.

    What were the circumstances for this event?


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