The Most Hours You've Ever Worked

[CairnsDuc]

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!  

[JBubble]

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.

[lethe]

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 

[JBubble]

but sasquatchs have a hardier constitution so it's not fair to compare him to us 

That hardy constitution makes for some epic gas. 

[GAAN]

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

[ducpainter]

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.

[herm]

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...

[wbeck257]

Continous shift? 64 hours, no sleep.
Week? 154 hours.

[GAAN]

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

[dropstharockalot]

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.

[GAAN]

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

[herm]

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....

[gripgrip]

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

[badgalbetty]

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!

[yamifixer]

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?