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Longest work shift

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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Gringo180

Anybody doing more than a 12 hour shift is a hungry cant

It should be illegal to do anymore than 50 hours a week.

cloud493

Sure I remember asking my manager in the middle of that 41 hour shift for a proper break (as opposed to short 5 minute smoke breaks) and she laughed in my face and told me I could keep working or go home and not come back, they weren't paying me to sit round.

tomwaterford

Gringo180 wrote: »

Anybody doing more than a 12 hour shift is a hungry cant It should be illegal to do anymore than 50 hours a week.

has to be done in my line opf work anyway!!!
though you do get a certain level of job security for quieter times of year....so it evens itself out

Aubrey loves Joe

hidinginthebush wrote: »

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

Cocaine tester maybe?

Streetwalker

Mickey measuring competition stuff in here. 8 hrs that's all I do. Some things are more important than work, actually most things.

Silverbling

19 hours yesterday and 14 hours today, the joys of being self employed!

I am now in my pyjamas and fluffy socks in a heap on the sofa with a box of chocolates, a bottle of wine and a jar of very stinky muscle ache rub

fatherted1969

Clocked in at 10:50am yesterday morning, clocked out at 8:30pm tonight. Long long shifts in residential homes for people with disabilities. Has its perks though as I get plenty of time off in between shifts. Going in at 12noon on xmas eve till 4pm xmas day

Gringo180

Streetwalker wrote: »

Mickey measuring competition stuff in here. 8 hrs that's all I do. Some things are more important than work, actually most things.

You said it. Some people take there work too serious and are like robots. There should be no need to work more than 45-50 hours a week and thats even pushing it a bit.

tomwaterford

Gringo180 wrote: »

You said it. Some people take there work too serious and are like robots. There should be no need to work more than 45-50 hours a week and thats even pushing it a bit.

but at that fav pastime of agri contracters...you can only realistically work when the weather good....alright this summer was grand
but most irish summers you have to work flat out maybe 60 hours over three days when you get a window of good weather as grass cant be lifted properly when its wet
(ever tried cutting a reasonable sized garden when its wet??...same principal)

Galwayguy35

Worked 30 hours straight driving a tractor at silage years ago, wouldn't do that again.

experiMental

Started work at 5 a.m. Then finished at midnight. Got home at 2 a.m. Had to get up next day at 5 a.m and sign in for more work. A couple of hours later, I could go home. I was absolutely wrecked, to the point where I was hallucinating and a weird taste was in my mouth.

That was in Canada. Things like that made me re-evaluate life.

Speaking of something real and completely bonkers, here is a story :
Investment bank analyst's worst day

seventeen sheep

Littlekittylou wrote: »

Also no one has mentioned full time stay at home parents. That is a 24 hr job!

In fairness it's not. Kids need sleep too - both at night, and naps during the day.

I have utmost respect for stay-at-home parents, I couldn't do it myself.

I do envy them the odd time I have a sleepless night because of my son - and I have to get up at 6am and wash and dress and commute and do a long hard days work - and then come home to sort out laundry and cooking and housework and put him to bed. I know stay-at-home parents are busy all day too, but at least they can do so in the comfort of their own home.

[Deleted User]

10-11 hours... I'm such a slacker

dinorebel

24 hrs then 27hrs and finally 32hrs in 5 days on a trawler regularly did 19 hour days on a crabber for a 6 day stretch.

PizzamanIRL

Shifted the secretary for 2 hours straight.

Galwayguy35

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Shifted the secretary for 2 hours straight.

I hope you gave your tongue the legal 11 hour break before it started work again.

ringadingding

Work in a kitchen, 2 x 16 hour shifts a week,
3 x 9 hour shifts.

A 9 hour shift seems almost like part time these days.

It's all in the mind In my opionin, but I see other chefs walk into work already defeated by the thoughts of it, and they never last the pace.

As I'm getting older though, the shifts are getting tougher.

For various reasons, my last time off that was longer than two days off together was this week last year.
I have my full 25 days hols and about 40 days in lieu owed for this year.

Venus In Furs

Streetwalker wrote: »

Mickey measuring competition stuff in here. 8 hrs that's all I do. Some things are more important than work, actually most things.

Gringo180 wrote: »

You said it. Some people take there work too serious and are like robots. There should be no need to work more than 45-50 hours a week and thats even pushing it a bit.

Well somebody has to be e.g. a doctor, carer, bar manager. I don't see how it's a mickey-measuring contest. A question was asked, and people are answering it.

allthedoyles

whatever happened to the organisation of working time act 1997

swpb

currently working 24 x 7 for the last 6 years................i'm a mother

Tail Docker

Venus In Furs wrote: »

Well somebody has to be e.g. a doctor, carer, bar manager. I don't see how it's a mickey-measuring contest. A question was asked, and people are answering it.

I usually do strictly 9-5, but somtimes, you have to do what you have to do. I have done more than my fair share of 24 hour stints, but jasus, it wrecks me for days afterwards. It isn't good for the body.

Highflyer13

ringadingding wrote: »

Work in a kitchen, 2 x 16 hour shifts a week,
3 x 9 hour shifts.

A 9 hour shift seems almost like part time these days.

It's all in the mind In my opionin, but I see other chefs walk into work already defeated by the thoughts of it, and they never last the pace.

As I'm getting older though, the shifts are getting tougher.

For various reasons, my last time off that was longer than two days off together was this week last year.
I have my full 25 days hols and about 40 days in lieu owed for this year.

Thats sounds like torture. You will put yourself in an early grave doing that. Must be worth it. Kitchens are very high intensity work environments aswell. Fair play to you I suppose.

PizzamanIRL

swpb wrote: »

currently working 24 x 7 for the last 6 years................i'm a mother

Full time yummy mummy

HandsomeDan

The lads braggin about mental hours are sad fúcks to be honest.

Are you that weedy that you can't tell an abusive employer (who's laughin all the way to the bank btw) to go fúck themselves?

K4t

Worked in a hotel for years so I'm accustomed to insane shifts but a lot of the posters here seem almost proud of being exploited, someone mentioned Stockholm syndrome and they're not far off.

However, there is a huge difference between working crazy hours in a relatively well paid job you like and a job you dislike or for minimum wage. This is very important here.

Venus In Furs

K4t wrote: »

Worked in a hotel for years so I'm accustomed to insane shifts

I know a guy who did hotel management for years and the hours he worked were just madness. He was well into it though - wanted to make a career of it. He runs a business in the industry now (co-owns a bar) and is doing really well. I think it's people who want to make a killing in business who can often be ok with such tough conditions. It's like they need to be pushed to their limits. I guess that's what it takes to make a business work.

ringadingding

K4t wrote: »

However, there is a huge difference between working crazy hours in a relatively well paid job you like and a job you dislike or for minimum wage. This is very important here.

This.
Bring wrecked at the end of the month but getting a good whack of wages, and job satisfaction is a huge driving force and at the end of the day, nobody's holding a gun to my head.
I know that my kitchen porters earn poor wages, work super hard and it's never ending, I always try to do little things for them here and there to show appreciation.
Often it's their spirit and can do attitude that keeps me going too.

EoghanIRL

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.

There is no way you can be working efficiently in a clinic environment after a 50 hour shift.

Tail Docker

EoghanIRL wrote: »

There is no way you can be working efficiently in a clinic environment after a 50 hour shift.

Doctors bury their mistakes. Especially in Ireland.

Summer wind

I worked as a supervisor in a petrol station and our shifts were usually 8 hours long but if the supervisor for the next shift couldn't come in we had to do a 16 hour shift. It could be a pain in the arse but if we were busy the time would fly. I worked in a factory and every 3 months we had an end of quarter when every order had to be shipped by the end of that month. Every October was the worst because we had to work 31 days in a row for 12 hours a day.

Working in hairdressers at Christmas can be mental because you are working lots of 10 and 12 hour days standing all the time but it's good fun too and the tips are great.