What is the longest shift you've ever worked?

[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.

[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]

[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.