What is the longest shift you've ever worked?

[reecejackox]

10 1/2 hours for me

7am to 5.30pm

 

[antmaril]

I was a legal secretary and the attorneys I worked for were trying to close a deal before the Christmas Holiday break. I arrived at work at 7:00 a.m. on Thursday and I got home at 2:00 p.m. on Friday. We got it done.

 

[tvguy]

Worked? Did a week of 16 hours on, 8 hours off in 1986 during flooding here.
Volunteered? 24 hours. Working security at a Scout-a-rama in 1975.

 

[mrodgers]

My first job after community college was in a new manufacturing facility. I started 4 months after it started up (still there after 27 years.) I joined in working 7-3 shift as a QC tech with the guy I was replacing who was the new supervisor. After the shift we stuck around doing data entry for all the quality paperwork they had built up for 4 months.

My first 6 weeks was 16 hours 7 days a week. After that was regular 8 hours but we were working 7 days a week still for quite a few months before changing over to a 12 hour 4 crew schedule. I worked that 12 hour schedule for 6 years. I'm still paid hourly (I'm fighting them putting me on salary non-exempt) but have been M-F day 8 hour for the last 21 years.

I don't only work 8 hours very often. I work by myself now so I have no schedule other than being their during the day. Could be anywhere from 8 to 14, I don't ever double up for 16 now.

In 2020 I worked somewhere around 1050 hours of overtime. That's 50% more hours worked than just regular 8 hour 5 days a week.

 

[StalCA]

When I was a resident being on call meant 28hr shifts. The hardest was we’d do weekends as 28 hrs from Friday 8 am to Saturday noon then come back again Sunday 8 am to Monday noon. It would be rare to be awake the whole time, average sleep was 2-3 hours, but it’d happen. It’s funny how you get used to functioning on so little sleep but since I stopped doing overnights I’m done if I don’t get my solid 8 hours now. Age may have something to do with it…

 

[E&Cmom]

I have done many 12 hours shifts. 13 hours during the time change. I dropped down to 8 hour shifts a year and a half ago and try not to extend beyond 10hours.

 

[nycdisneygal]

24 hours during residency. They were good at making sure we didnt stay much over 24 hours.

 

[Drewsdad]

30 hours during tax season

 

[TCRAIG]

Worked in tech prior to retiring - conversion weekends were 72 hours straight - from Friday thru to Sunday and then 14-20 hour days for the next week…

 

[fly girl]

Scheduled duty day could never be over 14 hours (unless long haul international), however it you could go to 16 hours due to circumstances such as a mechanical or weather. Yes, I went to 16 hours quite a few times as many of our trips were scheduled with 13 hour days. The worst 16 hour day was over a red eye, 5pm - 9am. And with a minimum layover, it was torturous even though I was in my early twenties.

 

[Travel60]

Public accounting busy season (audit)...not unusual to go in on, say, Monday morning and work through to Tuesday night, go home get shower, nap, repeat Wed/Thurs. Not all the time but once or twice on each audit.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Probably "Y2K" when we were printing backups of everything. (I worked in a corporate bank back then.) But it was still nothing like some the answers above - more like got in early that morning (maybe 6:00 or 6:30?) and got home about 10:00 that night.

That wasn't on a regular basis, though. I can't imagine some if the shifts medical personnel do all the time! (Can anyone chime in the reason for that, actually? I would think hospitals would be more aware of the dangers of sleep deprivation.)

 

[2goofycampers]

15 hours 6AM to 9PM.

 

[goofyernmost]

Years ago, when I managed a printing/publishing company, we had a major printing job that took three days straight, round the clock. The printing staff worked 12 hour shifts but I did a thirty six hour startup shift, went home to generally pass out for 8 hours and went back for another two 12 hour shifts. Almost all of it was hands on, not just supervision. That was in the 80's and I am not sure I have recovered yet.

 

[EACarlson]

27 hours straight doing security, two different clients. 12 hours at an NCAA Basketball tournament venue, overnight at a grain elevator they were fumigating then back for 7 more at the basketball venue. Then when I got home I could only sleep for 5 hours before my body told me it was time to get up.

 

[Jennasis]

32 hours. No break. No sleep.

 

[JLTraveling]

At Universal we used to have the option to come in early to cycle ride vehicles in the morning (6 am) and the park was regularly rented out for late-night private events. So I would semi-regularly work 6am until about 2am. Always fun doing a couple of those back-to-back.

My favorite shift ever though was at a residential mental health facility. I worked 16 hours (8am to midnight) Saturday and Sunday, 32 hours total, but got paid for 40. LOVED having five days off a week.

 

[emily nicole]

6:00AM-2:00AM. Got home, went to bed. Got called back in (medical field) at 3:30AM, and worked until 9:00AM. The worst part of it was that I had just gotten to sleep when they called me. I no longer work a job where I take call and I'm SO glad. I couldn't go back to that life.

 

[MamaMermaid]

I teach high school so it's different but certain days of the year I go from 7am-8pm. I know that's not the craziest but boy am I pooped when we do it! And of course, I'm back up at 5:30am the next morning ready for another day of teaching!

 

[happiestpoe]

I teach high school so it's different but certain days of the year I go from 7am-8pm. I know that's not the craziest but boy am I pooped when we do it! And of course, I'm back up at 5:30am the next morning ready for another day of teaching!

Parent-teacher conference season in a nutshell!