What's the longest shift you've worked?

[71chevellejohn]

I've been on a site for 22hrs once. With drive time to and from the site, I was billing for over 28hrs after all was said and done.

[HarrisonTX]

38 straight hours in the Army. We were being evaluated in the field at Ft Hood. It was absolutely fucking brutal. I was August, too. I was allotted about an hour to sleep during the first night but the mosquitoes in my ears wouldnt allow that to happen.

[80coupe]

20hr.

[slowturbocar]

A few months a go I worked from 6am Thursday all thru 6am Saturday with no sleep,12hr shifts back to back at different sites for Devon. Was awake 49hrs by the time I got home. 24hr shifts happen coupe times a month it seems like....

[Chas_svo]

Longest shift, almost 40 hours straight. It sucked, it was outdoors and cold as hell. January in West Texas as a welder's helper trying to finish tie-ins.

Longest run of long days, almost 12 weeks of 7 days a week, 16-18 days. Trying to finish a ridiculously complex software project that someone misbid, and I was one of the folks that had to get it done for an almost $34 million project. And the best part, I was salaried and got robbed of most of my bonus because it lapped quarters, and I had bench time before and after. I left the company about 6 months later.

[fordracing19]

Over 48 hrs. We worked 2 weeks back to back that were 140-143 hrs each.

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[Kyle]

26 hours straight when we had the ice storm when the Super Bowl was in Arlington. That was a great day for me!

When we had ice in December I was only sleeping 3-5 hours. I was up no later than 6AM and would work until I just couldn't any more. After 4 days of this, roads were good enough on the following Tuesday that I let my guys drive and I stayed home to sleep.

[Frank]

4O once and 48 once. In IT. I was bound and determined to finish a job I had to do in Pittsburgh and fly back to Texas and pack my apartment up to move. After a point you are beyond tired. Not even sleepy, but everything seems kind of surreal.

[HarrisonTX]

4O once and 48 once. In IT. I was bound and determined to finish a job I had to do in Pittsburgh and fly back to Texas and pack my apartment up to move. After a point you are beyond tired. Not even sleepy, but everything seems kind of surreal.

I feel like I can put in some hours behind a computer screen.
I can be dead tired and sit down at the PC and not move until 4am.
I wonder what I could do with a redbull and autocad

[Slowhand]

Fuck West Coast Investment Banker hours, fyi.

I've done this, or a very similar stretch a few times:

Day 1: 4AM until midnight
3 hours sleep then
Day 2: 4AM until 9 pm
sleep 1 hr
11pm until 1 AM
sleep 3 hours
Day 3: 4 AM until 4 PM.

So, ~51 hours in 3 days with 3 or 4 hours sleep a day in the worst part of earnings season. I ended up doing this probably 4 or 5 times out of 12 earnings seasons. That last day at about 5 pm when I got home I'd crack a Miller Lite, lay in the tub with the jets on for about 20 minutes then pass out for about 12 hours.

And that shit is why I bailed on the thought of IB!

[Kart21]

25.0 Hours , Manual machine work. Was young and was offered $$$ to finish out the job.

Never again. Chips started looking like slow motion from the lathe.

Safety Issues.

Didn't get the $$$ 'cause I was 1 part short. Coworker miscounted.

The guy asked me again about a year later.

Told him no, not again.

[bcoop]

Longest straight was 51 hours. For two years, my norm was 6-6 at the office, leave and grab dinner on the way home. Work from home from 8 (when I put the kid to bed) 3am. This was M-F. Weekends I worked 9 hours a day minimum. Man I don't miss that crap. I still work nights and weekends a lot of the time, but not being tied to a desk helps tremendously. I've also started to push a lot of my work off on our support staff. I decided I was going to put myself in an early grave if I didn't stop and start delegating.

[fastwhite99gt]

Almost 36 hours straight trying to put a units truck back together and a year at a time of 14-16 hour day, 7 days a week while deployed overseas. Got lucky last tour in Afghanistan, just 6 months of 7 - 12's lol.

[32vfromhell]

Longest straight was 51 hours. For two years, my norm was 6-6 at the office, leave and grab dinner on the way home. Work from home from 8 (when I put the kid to bed) 3am. This was M-F. Weekends I worked 9 hours a day minimum. Man I don't miss that crap. I still work nights and weekends a lot of the time, but not being tied to a desk helps tremendously. I've also started to push a lot of my work off on our support staff. I decided I was going to put myself in an early grave if I didn't stop and start delegating.

IMHO, its a lot easier to focus on work and put in the hours when you are on the road. Far less distractions, and for me, i know im committed away from home and no use yearning to go back. When i'm in the office, i can think of a 1000 ways to ruin my motivation to put in the hours and just go home.

[slow99]

And that shit is why I bailed on the thought of IB!

To be honest and fair, we (equity research/stock analysts) didn't have it nearly as bad as the bankers. I averaged 5 AM til 6 PM M-F during off peak hours with no weekends. The I-bankers would pull 8 AM until 11 PM seven days a week. Of course, the incentive is $300k first year out of grad school.

Now, when most of that is bonus and my no means guaranteed ... you can imagine how mad those guys were after working that shit for a year and getting screwed on bonus one of the years I was there. Fuck that shit.