Title says it all. How many have you worked before you hit the floor?
Here is my record so far for one week. Just 40 minutes short of 100 hours [bang] [bang]
(sorry for the IZ quality pic)
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All this in the name of Celine Dion. The company had to feed employees all week long. We lived off pizza and cheese steaks. So if anybody plans on seeing Celine in Vegas, let me know how you liked it. It cost me some long weeks
Do you get overtime pay?
sac
Quote from: Sắc Dục on February 28, 2011, 03:48:03 PM
Do you get overtime pay?
sac
time and a half over 40 would be $$$
here is to hoping you answer yes!!! [beer]
When I worked as groom for a Morgan show barn in VT, we would put in 120+/wk at shows.
And it was salary. They did house and feed us well though.
168 hours. ;D
I'm hourly [bacon] [bacon]
It's quite ok by me.
Once, I was painting a stair unit for Radio City which is a fairly large staircase. I was using a 4" inch roller. When asked by a coworker why I was using that instead of a 9" roller, I proceeded to tell him that it was my hourly roller ;D
Quote from: Sắc Dục on February 28, 2011, 03:48:03 PM
Do you get overtime pay?
sac
Yes it is time and a half over 8 hours a day. I did a few 18 hour days [evil]
Quote from: Speedbag on February 28, 2011, 04:05:48 PM
168 hours. ;D
[clap]
So thats how you got the name
Speedbag? ;D
90-110 was pretty routine during internship. Amazing how I still had energy to party 3 times per week. It was good to be 26 <sigh>
27 hours straight.
Don't know how much in a week, we don't have a time/punch clock and I have never used one. [thumbsup]
I've done 30 something hours straight and then drove home but it was only an hour and a half drive back then so pretty weak stuff [cheeky]
No clue as to amount worked in a week.
If I can count my commute though, I leave the house at 4:30 am daily and get home typically 7:30pm, 5 days a week for the last 11 years.
When I was on Capitol Hill in the late '80s/early '90s, 70-75 hour weeks were pretty normal, and ones way in excess of that weren't unusual. I never kept exact count, even though I was supposed to fill out a time sheet, because I was an "exempt" employee & therefore wasn't eligible for overtime, so what's the point?
Two or three times a year the House would stay in session overnight or for a few days, usually on budget bills, and since that was in my portfolio it meant sleeping at my desk -- or not, if I had to keep an eye on what was/wasn't happening on the floor.
Definitely one of those experiences that becomes more fun as it fades in the rear view mirror.
My best is 37 hours straight. I worked 3 months straight doing 12-20 hour days w/ no days off that culminated in a 37 hour straight push at the end. I worked 5 different jobsites between SW VA and Knoxville and covered 400+ miles of commuting.
I took 2 weeks off starting the next day. I made more $$ in those 3 months than I have in any other single year in my life, but I don't think I could make myself do it again. It was awful.
This was supposed to be a pity party for me.... damn [roll]
Quote from: ducpainter on February 28, 2011, 06:14:45 PM
I'm here to help. ;D
[laugh]
Quote from: lazylightnin717 on February 28, 2011, 06:20:30 PM
This was supposed to be a pity party for me.... damn [roll]
[laugh]
My record for a single week was 120 hours.
Some nights I drove home, showered, slept for 3 hours, and got up and drove back to work.
Sucked bad.
If yir lookin for some sympathy I can help. You can find it in the dictionary, hiding somewhere between shit and syphilis.
sorry, that was my inside voice leaking out...
:)
Quote from: lazylightnin717 on February 28, 2011, 06:20:30 PM
This was supposed to be a pity party for me.... damn [roll]
[laugh]
Pity party?! I was on salary at $40k/ yr for those 110 hr wks! I went through 4 yrs of med school and accrued 6 figure debt for the privilege of being a slave. No pity here ;)
worked or been on the clock?
52 hours straight. 14 of them on a hot ship inspecting cargo containers.
Quote from: Mother on February 28, 2011, 08:55:48 PM
worked or been on the clock?
A true fireman question! [laugh]
I don't remember the total hours per week or in a row, but the most I've ever done was fighting wildfires. Dirty hardass work. I remember in Oregon there was a big lightning storm that lit off about 20 fires. At the end of the normal 10 hour day my partner were sent into the woods to join a small team of smoke jumpers on a fire. Jumpers are the elite in wildfire fighting and I had never worked with them before. At first I was unimpressed by them. I thought these guys aren't that tough. 24 hours later I felt like a whooped puppy, desperate for a break and the jumpers were still going at the same steady hardass pace.
with or with the benefit of drugs?
also in wildland fire..
most hours on the clock with no sleep = 50
most hours paid in a week = 170
most hours worked in a 3 week period = 336
most overtime hours worked in 5 months = 5100
re: smokejumpers - they say no one has ever seen jumper line that held... ;)
Quotere: smokejumpers - they say no one has ever seen jumper line that held... Wink
The lines the jumpers and my partner and I put in held.
Quote from: akmnstr on March 01, 2011, 08:54:33 AM
The lines the jumpers and my partner and I put in held.
once they ask for help, its not jumper line anymore.
[some great friends are lawn darts, don't get me wrong. i'm sure they have just as bad stuff to say about the hotshots]
When I was an intern, 120- to 130-hour weeks were the norm. We mostly computed how much we got to sleep, then subtracted it from 168 to estimate how much we'd worked. We usually worked 32 hours in a row 3 times a week.
At least they paid us $20k!
A good laugh is better than sympathy and you fella's provide [thumbsup]
I also stand humbled. I'm glad to see that there are still hard working people around [beer]
When GST (Goods and Services Tax) was implemented in Australia in 2000 I was working for a large Retailer on the Team ensuring
the switch over went as smoothly as it could, I can't remember the final hour count for the week leading up to
the switch over day, but the day before the new Tax would kick off, we started at 5am, we had a 3 level Department store to
completely reticket and change every piece of Point of Sale before we could reopen for business the following day, and under the
legislation we were not allowed to start putting up the new prices before the Start date (1st of July 2000)
but to cut a very long and boring story short.
I walked in at 5am on the Friday, I walked out at 3pm the Following day
Lets just say my Pay Packet for that week allowed me to pay off my Car! ;D
Mother was on the clock for 7 full days after Hurricane Ike (or was it Gustav?). He pulled 34 days straight in Florida after Katrina as a disaster responder.
Quote from: JBubble on March 01, 2011, 04:17:51 PM
Mother was on the clock for 7 full days after Hurricane Ike (or was it Gustav?). He pulled 34 days straight in Florida after Katrina as a disaster responder.
but sasquatchs have a hardier constitution so it's not fair to compare him to us [cheeky]
Quote from: lethe on March 01, 2011, 04:21:57 PM
but sasquatchs have a hardier constitution so it's not fair to compare him to us [cheeky]
That hardy constitution makes for some epic gas. :-X
Katrina/Rita/Wilma was 34 days in swamps and five stars on southbeach
Gustav was a 10 day portal to portal hell...I hate Texas
i feel somewhat lacking bringing up getting paid for 80 hours...
plus 40 hours vacation pay....it was a long few years. 80 hour weeks were a regular occurrence. They called me painterpm.
My longest shift was 20 hours.
I only did 14 the next couple of days.
Someone had to do it.
Quote from: Mother on March 01, 2011, 05:16:11 PM
Katrina/Rita/Wilma was 34 days in swamps and five stars on southbeach
Gustav was a 10 day portal to portal hell...I hate Texas
we had 34 days (with travel) for Katrina...but its even better. even though we went down there for hurricane relief, we ended up on a fire on the Apalachicola NF instead. 32 days of 16hrs with hazard pay**. no H pay for travel, and only 12 hour days
** 16 hours with H pay and OT is the same as 24 hours of base pay, so......$$$ (or in my case, my s2r1k)**
i miss that job...
Continous shift? 64 hours, no sleep.
Week? 154 hours.
Quote from: wbeck257 on March 02, 2011, 05:21:18 AM
Continous shift? 64 hours, no sleep.
Week? 154 hours.
we did that 3 days awake shit during the opening of Gustav
finally got to sleep
woke up shortly in total panic mode
didn't know where I was or why I was there
it got me 2 liters of fluid, a little white pill, and 18hrs downtime
and
a gorilla no one else could see
To this day I refuse to drink Monster EVER again
110 in a week when working as a 'management trainee' (aka "hostage") for Steak'n'Shake in 2001. Salaried at $33k per year. Lesson: Have a replacement lined up before you fire your third-shift drive-thru guy for drinking on the clock.
Quote from: herm on March 01, 2011, 08:17:02 PM
we had 34 days (with travel) for Katrina...but its even better. even though we went down there for hurricane relief, we ended up on a fire on the Apalachicola NF instead. 32 days of 16hrs with hazard pay**. no H pay for travel, and only 12 hour days
** 16 hours with H pay and OT is the same as 24 hours of base pay, so......$$$ (or in my case, my s2r1k)**
i miss that job...
dewd
you were on a fire in that?
it was so make the beast with two backsing hot
Quote from: Mother on March 02, 2011, 05:48:22 AM
dewd
you were on a fire in that?
it was so make the beast with two backsing hot
yup, fighting fire in florida is different....
115 to 120 hours a week is pretty standard for me. i work in 126 day shifts. basically non stop for 4 months, no weekends, no holidays, no vacations, no time for the monster.
when we pull into singapore thats usually a 50 to 55 hour day, maybe catch a power nap at lunch or dinner.
on the other hand, the 126 days im home, everyday is basically a saturday [beer]
at sea longest time no sleep: 3 days in Holland loading ships stores. Shoreside strike so no cranes, all ships supplies taken up the gangway by hand. We had 50 foot freeboard,so thats a really long climb with a 125lb box of meat over your shoulder. Loading 3000 cases of beer was no fun either....
Longest at sea without seeing land: 96 days.
Longest sea trip:almost 6 months at sea ,yeah we got ashore but I was away from home for 6 months.
Since I emigrated to America paid 2 week period: 178 hours on a freight dock unloading trucks.
Longest time on freight dock with zero time off: 4 months .
I am now unemployed, enjoying the rest but really hate the no income thing!
While in the Navy One of my coworkers and I were the ONLY Knuckleheads in the navy to hold a qual to weld a valve on a SSBN that was 3 days over due to deploy. The CO of the base ordered us on the boat until the job was complete. We spent 4 days watching meters for moisture levels to get to were we could weld. Napped when we could but it was a nasty couple of days.
I also spent 9-1/2 months in 14 on 10 off shift work without a day off.
And I wonder why I got out sometimes?
Quote from: gripgrip on March 02, 2011, 07:49:21 AM
when we pull into singapore thats usually a 50 to 55 hour day, maybe catch a power nap at lunch or dinner.
They must have long days in Singapore! ;D
mitt
I can't be the only person reading this thinking you all are crazy.
Quote from: donzo on March 02, 2011, 10:32:13 AM
I can't be the only person reading this thinking you all are crazy.
Just remember that the next time you pregnant dog about your power going out during thunderstorm season. [thumbsup]
Quote from: donzo on March 02, 2011, 10:32:13 AM
I can't be the only person reading this thinking you all are crazy.
I'm right there with you.
After 3 days awake...aren't you legally insane??
(Hence Mother's gorilla)
Quote from: donzo on March 02, 2011, 10:32:13 AM
I can't be the only person reading this thinking you all are crazy.
Nope
About 84 hours in a week is my max...and I've only done it once. [thumbsup] Usually 40-50.
80-90 a week if you count working full time while attending college. That lasted for 8 years.
60 hours but it was in the snow, and uphill, both ways. ;D
Quote from: mitt on March 02, 2011, 10:29:39 AM
They must have long days in Singapore! ;D
mitt
days get pretty long when your stuck in an engine room with no windows to look out.
I've hit a 90hr week before working as a swamper for a drilling company... good times... better paychecks.
Now I get paid the same regardless of how long I'm at work.
65 Hrs. in the gulf during summer rebuilding a Diesel Main Propulsion Engine (12V71 Detroit) after it decided to eat a few exhaust valves and spit out the corresponding cylinder liners/Pistons. The Ship that my Craft was Embarked upon pulled into Rhodes Greece right after my crew and I finished the repairs, We all celebrated completing the job with 6 hrs of drinking.
Quote from: gripgrip on March 02, 2011, 06:28:26 PM
days get pretty long when your stuck in an engine room with no windows to look out.
The post said 50-55 hour day ;D
mitt
Quote from: Punx Clever on March 02, 2011, 10:52:16 PM
I've hit a 90hr week before working as a swamper for a drilling company... good times... better paychecks.
Now I get paid the same regardless of how long I'm at work.
Don't you get paid to blow shit up at mach 1? Pretty sure I would do that for free, regardless of the hours.
Quote from: AJ on March 02, 2011, 12:06:10 PM
After 3 days awake...aren't you legally insane??
(Hence Mother's gorilla)
That's one way Salvador Dali would get there.
Been there, done that. Art school was fun like that [evil]
I regularly put in 110 hour work weeks during my first year out of college in M&A. My refusal to start smoking and doing coke made it impossible to compete with my co-workers. A few months into it I actually fainted while waiting for a cab, got taken to the ER and my boss's only response was "it happens to all of us. you should ask your doctor for 'something.'" I decorated my cubicle with medical studies on the effects of sleep deprivation and frequently announced to my office at which hours I would be considered intoxicated or insane by playing "Brain Damage" loudly. Boss did not find it funny, many others did.
These days I put in, on average, 12 hour work days with some 20 and others just a couple, because I make my own schedule. Working long hours is a whole other ball game when you're working for yourself. I get to wear jeans, go to the gym half way through the day, do cool shit and tell any pretentious assholes that dare enter my work environment to make the beast with two backs off. Most importantly, I get to wake up after 10am most days and get to sleep in a few days a week ;D
Quote from: DesmoLu on March 11, 2011, 10:24:10 PMmy first year out of college in M&A.
Mayhem and Anarchy?
Quote from: DesmoLu on March 11, 2011, 10:24:10 PM
I regularly put in 110 hour work weeks during my first year out of college in M&A. My refusal to start smoking and doing coke made it impossible to compete with my co-workers. A few months into it I actually fainted while waiting for a cab, got taken to the ER and my boss's only response was "it happens to all of us. you should ask your doctor for 'something.'" I decorated my cubicle with medical studies on the effects of sleep deprivation and frequently announced to my office at which hours I would be considered intoxicated or insane by playing "Brain Damage" loudly. Boss did not find it funny, many others did.
These days I put in, on average, 12 hour work days with some 20 and others just a couple, because I make my own schedule. Working long hours is a whole other ball game when you're working for yourself. I get to wear jeans, go to the gym half way through the day, do cool shit and tell any pretentious assholes that dare enter my work environment to make the beast with two backs off. Most importantly, I get to wake up after 10am most days and get to sleep in a few days a week ;D
May I ask which M&A firm you worked for?
I worked for one in Hong Kong last year, easily pulled 100+ hours a week. The weeks we travel to Indonesia are the worst since we leave on a Sunday around midnight, it's a 5hour flight to Jakarta. We have a meeting before the flight, finishing up buyer presentations and stuff on the plane and by the time we get to the client's office its around 9-10am on Monday. Give the pitch. Work on the deal depending on the negotiation which might take up the whole week. Then fly back to HK on a midnight flight, and continue the next day...
After 6 months I start sympathize with my coworkers who start to drink and smoke heavily, cheat on their wives with prostitutes, and just destroy their personal lives.
At the end of the year I took my bonus and ran lol
In one 7 day period; 111 hours working for a boat dealer in Maryland getting boats rigged for the Annapolis boat show.
In 2003, I worked 142 hours in 9 days cutting trees and tarping houses after hurricane Isabel.
That hurricane paid the down payment on my house. [thumbsup]
Quote from: Razgriz on March 13, 2011, 12:05:13 AM
May I ask which M&A firm you worked for?
At the end of the year I took my bonus and ran lol
at JP AND me too!!
Quote from: Bun-bun on March 13, 2011, 05:25:53 PM
In 2003, I worked 142 hours in 9 days cutting trees and tarping houses after hurricane Isabel.
Physical work is tiring in a completely different way. Very hard but overall just *feels* better and is more natural. I think we are meant to and can work hard physically but it is the sitting in front of computer dealing with intense stress and a bunch of assholes that actually kills us.
16-18 hours a day for 103 days straight, all while never seeing land...
I used to be a systems engineer. One very high profile server went down and the owner of the company said I had to go babysit it until it came back to life. I got on site at the end of my regularly scheduled 10 hour day. Immediately, I diagnosed the problem as a vendor software issue. It wasn't something I could fix, but I had to stay until it was fixed. In a server room. For three days.
I walked through fixes with the vendor, but there was nothing that could be fixed remotely. The package had to be rewritten. I could get the server online for 20 minutes, and then it would crash again at the same point.
After being captive for 82 hours, another engineer came out to show me how I was doing it wrong. He "fixed" it in a matter of minutes, just as I had several times already. He then went on to berate me about how I didn't know anything. I called my boss and explained that it was back online, would break again in less than 15 mins and that the douchebag claiming to have fixed it (and just all staff emailed how he fixed it and was awesome) hadn't. The boss took pity on me and sent me home. 96 hours from clock in to clock out with naps in the server room.
I hadn't left the parking lot when my pager went off that the server crashed again, but I had been officially relieved by the guy they fired a few months later. I decided to finish my degree and go teach high school. 24/7 on-call for non-life threatening situations is bullshit.
the real querstion is how much are you getting paid to put in the 110 weeks and such?
sometimes those good jobs and mucho money do not come cheap, there is a reason that law firms pay some starting associates fresh out of school that know nothing 150k a year starting and then they work 100-130 hour weeks all the time, its because they aren't going to pay you a kings ransom for nothing.
for that you have to become a rock start or get drafted in the nba.
Quote from: Bun-bun on March 13, 2011, 05:25:53 PM
In 2003, I worked 142 hours in 9 days cutting trees and tarping houses after hurricane Isabel.
Isabel worked my ass off too. I had to oversee hurricane prep in the garden center of all the Lowe's stores between Elizabeth City and DC. That was a hectic week. I went back home to Staunton (200 miles inland from VA Beach) about 6 hours before landfall and dealt with shit there. Ended up w/ waist deep water in my yard and a foot of water in the house. make the beast with two backsing trees every where. Worst flooding we'd had since Juan in '85 and Camille in '69.
Quote from: sbrguy on March 15, 2011, 08:13:45 AM
the real querstion is how much are you getting paid to put in the 110 weeks and such?
The busiest week I had doing construction in my previous post I billed around $12K. Of course, that $$ trickled in over a six month period. [bang] The busiest week where I've walked with $$ in my hand was about 70 hrs over 4 days. I walked with $6K profit, gave my helper a $500 bonus for generally being awesome and took a week off. Those figures may not seem like a lot to most business people, but my overhead was only $300/wk plus a part-time 1099 helper. Damn how I miss the construction days of yore....