Longest shift you've ever worked

[Helobious 9467]

What's the longest shift you've ever worked, and for what job? Or simply what's the most consecutive hours you've worked? 

I once worked an 18 hour shift for a catering company when I was still in college, 8am-2am. All day set up for a night event, the event itself, then the cleaning/packing up, and driving back to the warehouse to put the shit up.  It was a 3,000 person CCA event in San Antonio. And yes, I still managed to walk into the right apartment afterwards. 

[phdhorn 6224]

45 hours.  On your mother.

[bschoolprof 6273]

What’s the longest shaft you’ve ever worked?

[Steel Shank 9432]

You talking about "The West Coast Turnaround"?

[Pato del Muerto 52636]

24-25. Pharmaceutical laboratory.  Very unsafe practice. 

I suggested later that it be disallowed in writing in the plant chemical hygiene plan due to risk, but they didn’t change anything. 

[Deej 76981]

Once did a 15 hour shift. Came home to the wrong apartment and killed a man in cold blood. To be fair, I was tired.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

I took a 12 hour shit once..........  wait.....

[Deej 76981]

Colonoscopy prep is a bitch.

[Guest]

20 hours

6 hours sleep

18 more hours straight

 

straight fucking work too, gricery business. not sitting in a chair. 

Hurricanes suck ass. 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8823]

What’s the longest shaft you’ve ever worked?

6 inches, 3 inches each time

[Digdogger 1344]

5 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

36 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

What’s the longest shaft you’ve ever worked?

6 inches, 3 inches each time

Mother?

[CooterBrown 18034]

24 hours straight during the Hurricane Katrina response. My firm had the 8am-8pm shift but the other company never sent their night shift to relieve us. Granted I was managing staff so I just slept in the RV for 8 hours of that but the Feds paid me anyway since I was on duty.

[Spur08 382]

21 straight hours of surgery. BAMC in San Antonio. 540 spine surgery of a soldier that was hit by an IED and was flown straight into Lackland (via Germany, I think)

[RPM 26368]

42 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

You talking about "The West Coast Turnaround"?

I may or may not have driven from LA to Newark without sleeping several times back in the "good 'ol days" of trucking. There was definitely assistance.

[elnimo 55]

24hrs.  I and did not go into the wrong apartment.

[Zepol87 9198]

18 hours but I’m not a dumbass cop

[conVINCEd 21473]

2 minutes ago, elnimo said:

24hrs.  I and did not go into the wrong apartment.

Spoken like someone coming off a 24 hr shift.

[BrickHorn 18291]

First time at trial I billed an 18 hour day followed by a 22 hour day followed by another 20 hour day.  Basically zero sleep for three nights.  And that was in a two week period where I never got more than 5 hours of sleep in a single night.  

For years after that trial, I cringed every time I heard the sound of an iPhone alarm.

[F250 28828]

The longest shift I ever worked was 36 hours. I was powered by Jolt, Mountain Dew and coffee and 1 doughnut. I later did a 32 hour shift and a 30 hour shift and regulatly did 24 hour shifts. I can't even count how many 24 hour shifts I worked back then.

I was in my early twenties working in the tech industry and fell for the grind it out mentality because I young and dumb.

 

 

[Washpark 176]

20 hrs day for 5 days straight. Investment banking (M&A group)

[FartingMonk 3608]

Qatar Gas.  1 hour drive into the plant.  16 hours in the plant.  1 hour drive back to the hotel with the pussy ass bitch Indian engineers calling at various times in the night because they were scared to make decisions.  Did that for a month straight.  Fuck that place

[BrickTop 477]

120 hours straight during Hurricane Harvey.


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[DixonHur 11395]

Roughly 60 hours, and I've done it three times.  Once in 2000 and twice in 2014...I'm taking active measures to ensure it doesn't happen a 4th time.

[msucolt45 4084]

40+ hours - active duty military (Army).


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[SJS 10]

38 hours as surgery resident

[TonyTexas 10535]

120 hours straight during Hurricane Harvey.


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[BrickTop 477]

Lol I’m a Firefighter in a suburb of Houston.....wasn’t uncommon at all we usually work 48/96.


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[SpiralOut 1818]

Fifteen hours out in an oilfield setting up a service to a new well in 110 degree heat.  Most of it on caliche giving a nice reflection of the Sun back into my face.

Dug the holes for the poles.  Dropped the poles.  Ran the overhead line to the well.  Hung the transformer.  Hooked up the transformer.  Dug the ditch to the pump jack (Ditch Witch is winning).  Laid the line.  Installed the panel box.  Hooked up a new motor and belts.  For some reason it absolutely had to be done that day.  Then the motherfuckers didn't even start it up for another week. 

If I'd lived in an apartment I could have easily walked into the wrong one.  Once I got in the door I found the couch and passed right the fuck out until the alarm woke me up for the next day.

 

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[NotActuallyALonghorn 4979]

Got off work at 6:30 AM after a 12 hour shift on a Friday. Spent all day packing and getting stuff together, picked my girlfriend up, and drove through the night powered by monster and cigarettes to get to the Chisos Basin ranger station at the time they were supposed to open so we could get the best backcountry permits, only to find that the winter storm we drove through had knocked out all power for 100 miles. By the time we went to bed I had been up for over 48 hours.

But that doesn't compare to trying 27 hours of labor followed by an emergency C section. And I wasn't the one trying to squeeze out a baby.

[GottaB 595]

I definitely remember 18 hr on multiple occasions.  I vaguely remember working a 22 hour.   I remember walking in collapsing after a few shifts.  

[Anastasis 23473]

1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

First time at trial I billed an 18 hour day followed by a 22 hour day followed by another 20 hour day.  Basically zero sleep for three nights.  And that was in a two week period where I never got more than 5 hours of sleep in a single night.  

 For years after that trial, I cringed every time I heard the sound of an iPhone alarm.

God I hope that the world is a better place after that. 

[Eastwood 4394]

24 hours working a fuel island and doing preventative maintenance. I was 2nd shift. 3rd shift was only one man, who called in. Two of the 3 for 1st shift called in, so I agreed to stay under the condition that I get the next two days off. Showed up at 3 pm, left at 3 pm the following day.

[Thetexashammer 1062]

Multiple times worked three days with maybe 1-2 hours each night. I would get one decent night then go back at it.

Several times afterwards, I came home, to the correct house. I really liked fruit salad with poppy seed dressing. So no shit, more than once, I would make fruit salet, pour ranch all over it, and eat it. Thought it tasted weird. Kept eating. Finally dawns on me, that's not poppy seed dressing. Lots of other weird sleep deprivation stories if I took the time.

Driving like that was always and adventure.

[pearlandhorn 3274]

16 hours at Ross Dress For Less in high school. 6 am to 10 pm. Fuck tax free weekend 

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28 minutes ago, BrickTop said:

Lol I’m a Firefighter in a suburb of Houston.....wasn’t uncommon at all we usually work 48/96.


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you are on duty for that long.

 

You're not working that long.

 

There is a distinct difference between playing pingpong, cooking dinner( which all of us do,) and being on scene.

[Knoxtnhorn 6067]

While in college, I helped open a new restaurant (in Austin).  16-18 hour days for something like 15 of the 16 days I was there.  Best part?  I had broken two ribs the day before I flew down.  I was so hopped up on pain meds, I didn't really care that I was working.  I'd get back to the hotel and melt into the bed until the next alarm.

[BrickTop 477]

you are on duty for that long.
 
You're not working that long.
 
There is a distinct difference between playing pingpong, cooking dinner( which all of us do,) and being on scene.

Negative I was on shift for that long, like the Op asked. And it’s entertaining running into people who think all we do is play ping pong, eat, wait for calls and drain tax payers money


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[Spur08 382]

False. You also hold boots on corners

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2 minutes ago, BrickTop said:

Negative I was on shift for that long, like the Op asked. And it’s entertaining running into people who think all we do is play ping pong, eat, wait for calls and drain tax payers money


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I don't think that way.  Multiple family members are firefighters.  

 

You were on duty that long.

 

You aren't working that long, especially on the regular, or y'all don't give a fuck about safety.

[BrickTop 477]

I don't think that way.  Multiple family members are firefighters.  
 
You were on duty that long.
 
You aren't working that long, especially on the regular, or y'all don't give a fuck about safety.

Good to know, I’ve been in 18 years, we refer to our scheduled days as shifts or tours. At 0700 your shift begins and you are considered “on duty”, never heard it referred to as anything else. But yes you are right some shifts are easier than others and some nights you don’t get woken up at all. Other shifts you can go with 2-3 hours of sleep a night, it really just depends. But yea when it is flooding and such we tend to stay pretty busy .


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[Dances with Dachshunds 30]

48+ hours - Active military during Desert Storm

[High Plains Drifter 11054]

I did once go to class on the wrong floor of ESB. Exact same layout, just one floor off. The prof started passing out a test, and when I saw the title on the test, I realized I was in the wrong classroom. I took the test anyway, put a made up name on it, was the second to turn it in. 

In my defense, I was high as fuck, but unarmed.

[FartingMonk 3608]

Yeah. I've been doing some sort of shift work or another since I was 21.  When it comes to pay I definitely consider it a "12 hour shift" Now when it comes to actual work yeah.  That's open to interpretation.  

[Chet Steadman 940]

Nine, maybe ten hours.  I took a nice, long lunch though.  

I think I even had a glass or two of wine on the corporate card. 

[formermav43 4606]

I’ve been known to put in 4 or even 5 hours straight if I absolutely have to.

[Guest Lobo]

16 hours delivering beer in a truck with no A/C in San Antonio in July.  But I was 20 so I bounced back okay.  shit, I think I even went out that night and met some girls

I'm in the midst of 36 hours of no sleep at work right now.  It's "office" shit, but I'm already exhausted and honestly have forgotten what day it is multiple times already.

[fattyflattie 4638]

Did many 40+ hour shifts when first out of school doing offshore construction as field engineer.  Still doing a solid 24-36 about once a year when someone loses a boom, hoist line breaks, or some other dumb shit happens.  

[Bill Brasky 1465]

about 2 and 1/2 feet 

[bernorange 8367]

18 hours for 4 days in row sandwiched in between several weeks of 7-12s.  Project management for a client's 150 million dollar project.  Shit got intense.

[Apep 645]

I went over 40 hours a couple of times while working at a Big 4.