What is the longest shift you've ever worked?

[Pike]

I did a 16-hour shift once. The only thing that got me through it was reminding myself that I had the next day off. Then I got to the end of the day and they told me I had to come in the next day anyway. :whimper:

[Loony BoB]

Christmas Eve at The Cheesecake Shop. I think it was 6am to 8pm. So, 14 hours? And then I worked the Christmas morning afterwards, too! It was actually really fun. And considering how young I was and that I was living rent-free with my family, I was more than happy with the pay. That's not even touching on the considerable amount of free cake I got to take home. >=]

[Quindiana Jones]

I work 8:00 - 21:00 every Saturday at the moment. 70 minutes of which is lunch and dinner. That's probably my most intense to date.

And it's followed every Sunday by an 8:00 - 18:30 shift. :|

[Jess]

I don't think I've done any longer than 10 hours.

Years ago when I used to work in a nightclub I would sometimes work from 6pm-4am, with only two 10 minute breaks. And I'd be on my feet the whole time. My feet used to hurt so bad on the days after work. :(

I now work a 9-5 job. The latest I've ever left the office is 7pm, when I've been extra busy. :jess:

[Alive-Cat]

I think 7:00 - 21:00. Yeah that was long. It was basically a whole day, waking up, working, sleeping. I think I still went out afterwards actually, and got up at 7:00 the next day.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

13 or 14 hours. I did homework for 26 hours straight once, but that's not really a job, heh.

[Raistlin]

The most I've worked in one day was probably about 14 hours. That's not a straight "shift" though, as I would be at work for 12 hours or so, and then bring work home with me. 12+ hour days for 2-3 days during busy weeks are not uncommon for me, unfortunately.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

29 hours.

But I don't think that should count, because sometimes in the military you have to do that.

When not in a war zone though, I've worked 19 hours before. But my usual day (before I became an instructor) was 10-12 hours.

[Mirage]

13 hours. 8 hours regular shift with 5 hours of overtime. You can't legally make someone work so long that they will get less than 11 hours of non-work between two shifts, so more than that is pretty rare. I've seen coworkers work 8 hours overtime on Fridays though, but I never sign up for that stuff. Can't really force people to work overtime in Norway either, and in most lines of work it is forbidden to not pay at least 50% more per hour, and give us a 30 minute paid break with free food if we work for 3 hours extra or more.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

I just did a 12 hour shift a week or two ago. 8am to 8pm. Doesn't happen often, but I was the only person working in my area so I opened and closed.

I've had the option at one point or another to work 14+ hours as long as I didn't get "more than 40 hours in the week", but I've passed. I'm not living for work. I like free time.

Stepping outside at the end of the night, you wouldn't know I had ever seen the sky before. What a breath of fresh air. A novelty concept like "windows" gets lost on some places.

[Aulayna]

When I worked at a clientéle company of UEFA.

8am-10pm. This was voluntary mid, though I still got paid for it. My shift itself was only meant to be 8am-4pm.

Bear in mind this also meant I had to get up at 5am to get to work for 8am, and got home at around nearly 1am due to reduced trains running at that time of night. I had to be up at 8am again the next day for my next scheduled shift. Needless to say I came in dead tired the next day and went home sick about 3 hours later.

[ScottNUMBERS]

13 hours. It wasn't very enjoyable and I did not get extra money for doing so as I was on a fixed salary. At the time I was trying very hard to make a good impression.

[Shauna]

11:30am-8pm. Lol regular shift times.

[Shorty]

Fourteen hours in a single shift. Additionally, I worked two jobs for two years for 12-16 hours a day, six days a week.

[Colonel Angus]

I think I may have done is 13. Back when I used to get mucho-ubertime, I'd do 4 extra hours in a day.

Nowadays, even if I got the option I don't think I could do it. Since the beginning of the year they don't want anyone staying late anyway. They'd rather we come in an extra day for 4-10 hrs.

[Perducci]

Probably about 12 hours. If we're including the commute, probably about 15 hours.


Currently working about 9 hours a day, five days a week and it's not too bad.

[fire_of_avalon]

Fifteen or sixteen hours and then came back the next day and did it again. Because I used to be a stupidhead.

[Yamaneko]

About 10 inches.

[Del Murder]

Yams, it was shift, not shaft.

I've never worked a 'shift' longer than about 10 hours but I stopped having jobs with shifts many years ago. I've done a couple 12 hour days in my current job.

[Yamaneko]

But this looks like something a lady would work.

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/25058/2/swhikes/photos/phkea4.JPG

[Jowy]

1-7.

10:30 AM until 11:30 PM. Die in a fire and walk to the market; there's nothing on Bainbridge.

[Miss Mae]

The longest shifts we're supposed to be given at the supermarket where I work is 9 hours, but I have been given 10 hour shifts before and then had to go in the next day and whatever. Not too bad, especially with a break or two, but still super exhausting since my job means being on my feet for 99% of that time.

[Dat Matt]

9am to 8pm. 11 hours

There was a period I was working shifts day after day for 16 days. Jumping between different jobs/locations. Working in food retail was dull.

[Drift]

6PM-9AM so about 15 hours. I was working the awards season and got tasked supporting the Oscars...needless to say things broke and working overnight didn't help me think straight. Managed to get everything out though!

[Bubba]

Many, many moons ago when I worked for Macdonalds I worked for 24 hours within the space of 32.

I worked the dreaded 4pm -Close (ended up leaving at 4am) then I was back in work for a 12pm-12am the next day. Also, it was 2-4-1 Big Macs at the time.

It wasn't pleasant.

[Calliope]

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[Vermachtnis]

I worked a 13 hour shift, followed by a 10 hour shift the next day. St. Patty's day was not fun last year.

[Shiny]

I'm not sure if the film set or music video set was the longest but I know they were both 16+ hours. I also worked a 12 hour shift for 6 months for an MTV show but they paid for my dinner and a car home whenever I had to stay 10+ hours. I'm not counting the time I double shifted at MTV and then at HGTV. That was a 20 hour day for two weeks, but to be expected when you are doubling. Definitely not doing that again.

[Carl the Llama]

10am - 1am with no break the whole day (I ate pizza on shift) while I was working as a manager at Pizza Hut, on new years day because the other manager was "sick" and no one from any other stores could help me out, in the end I had the Area Manager come down and help me from 7pm till 12, but New Years is THE most busiest day of the year so come 7PM we were in a pretty bad situation, we had nearly sold out of pizza by 9pm so I had to do emergency defrost. We had record breaking sales that day of £2400 for a single day and a labour cost of 18% (normally double that) and my under 30's (time promise of 30 minutes from hanging up to pizza on the doorstep) was surprisingly high at 74%. I believe it was that particular shift that made my AM consider me for being an Expert Trainer (a manager that trains other managers) so I was pleased to get some recognition out of the worst shift I have ever done.

The manager who was "sick" got the sack a month later for having to many days off.

[~*~Celes~*~]

when i first started working my job, they had me work 3:30pm - 12 am in the deli, then the next day 4 am- 12:30 pm in the bakery. I did not sleep between shifts because I knew if I did I wouldn't wake up in time, so I fell asleep standing up. By law we are supposed to be allowed 8 hours between shifts, but since I was so new to the job and I was so excited to be training in the deli that night, I didn't complain.

[BlueD]

My shift now I work 12 1/2 hour shifts but I work a 2 3 3 schedule meaning I work 3 days and get 2 off then I work 2 days and get 3 off so I only work half a year :)

[Vyk]

One weekend at the Humane Society I worked at, I had to camp out because we had a bunch of puppies with parvo we were trying to save. They needed 24/7 care and nobody was available. And it would have been hugely more expensive to have a vet do it or something. I worked that friday morning, then stayed over and spent the night, had to work the next morning, then went home and took a 4 hour nap and came back before they closed and stayed the night again, and had to do the whole next day/night before I could get any more time off. We lost one puppy and then they were out of the woods and I was safe to go back to normal life. I'm not sure which part of that was the longest shift, but I got like 180 hours on that paycheck o_O which I don't know is legal, but I wouldn't report them. That next check was fantastic