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Title: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: Rob on August 8, 2006, 12:01 AM
I'm sitting at my desk at 11:00 on a monday, expecting to stay through the night and I decided to add it up... by the time morning hits I'll have worked 94 hours in the last 8 days.


So, it made me curious, what's the most you've ever had to work?

Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: MetalJedi on August 8, 2006, 12:07 AM
Ive had to work 54 hours in a week. I thought that was bad but 94 hours? Yuck.
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Post by: Morgbug on August 8, 2006, 12:12 AM
It's been a long time since I had a week like that.  I'd have to go back into my late teens or early twenties I'd think, when I was working three jobs at the same time, one of them full time, two part time. 

The full time job was tennis court maintenance dude and we worked odd shifts, either 6-3 or 2-11.  We got an hour for lunch, so it worked out ok. 

The part time job was bussing tables just before I started bartending, but I was doing that as much as possible.  The other part time job was working at a brewery on the bottling line and it was a hideous shift - 2 am until 11 am. 

There were quite a few shifts where I had some overlap and was actually being paid at two jobs at the same time.  There were also two instances where I worked better than 24 hours in a 24 hour period because of that. 

But 90 hours or so seems right to my faded memory.
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: DSJ™ on August 8, 2006, 12:15 AM
This goes back just over 25 years ago when I was a wage worm. One of the guys was going on vacation for 2 weeks & I was asked if I wanted to work overtime, I had no vacation time so what the hell so I did. 80 hrs. for the week & 160 hrs. for the 10 days. By the mid 2nd week I was feeling it & on the last day I was fried!
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Post by: JohnH on August 8, 2006, 01:01 AM
I worked two full time jobs at one point from May 1996 through January 1997.  One was generally 42-45 while the other was 40.  Just about drove me insane.  Most weekdays I'd go to work at 5:30 in the morning, leave at 2:30, go home, change, rest for a little bit, then go to work from 4:00-11:00 or 12:00. I usually had one day off at the night job and would generally leave at 8:00 on Fridays.  Then I'd work 10am-8pm on Saturdays and 4pm-12pm on Sundays.  The paychecks seemed nice at the time, but considering I was making $6.60-$7.50 an hour at each it's absolutely crazy in retrospect. 

I worked 50-55 hours a week for 16 months at a ****** car rental joint, which also took its toll.

Now, I work 37.5 hours per week, rarely work a minute more than that, and make more money than any other job I've had.  Life is good.  :)

John
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Post by: Famine on August 8, 2006, 01:01 AM
56 hours.

Kevin
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: Darth_Anton on August 8, 2006, 09:47 AM
I've pulled an 88 hour work week once. My boss was none too pleased to pay the OT.
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: BillCable on August 8, 2006, 10:54 AM
I work 52.5 hour weeks at least 3 or 4 times a year to cover for vacation time for one of my coworkers.  But usually it's 37.5.

I couldn't give an exact number of hours, but there was a week in college when I was working 2 full-time summer jobs in addition to taking a class.  I was transferring from one job to another, so for a couple days I'd work 3pm-11pm at Shoney's, then midnight-8am at a sandwich shop, then go to class from 9am-noon.  Those were some rough days.
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Post by: Scott on August 8, 2006, 11:18 AM
Just this last June I worked 7 straight 14 hour days 7AM to 9PM Saturday to Saturday...oh and did I say I was salaried?  Yeah >:(
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Post by: Darth Slothus on August 8, 2006, 11:22 AM
'Worked' 93 hours when I deployed for war. 6 days/1 off. I am salary military pay though ::)

Before I got into the service I worked 80 hour weeks a couple times during 'inventory week'  in an automotive parts wherehouse. It was alot of time and a half, yum ;).
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: Qui-Gon Jim on August 8, 2006, 11:38 AM
Over Columbus Day weekend of '04  put in 44 hours over the three days, 20 of them on Saturday into Sunday.  Salary can suck sometimes.
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Post by: jjks on August 8, 2006, 11:39 AM
The most I've worked in a week is 102 hours, but a big chunk of that was 31 straight during a software implementation. Salaried of course  >:(

Now that all my big implementations are done, I try to keep each week as close to 40 as possible.
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Post by: stormie on August 8, 2006, 12:05 PM
My first job out of college was at a chemical lab, and I remember working weeks straight of up to 12-13 hours a day (probably more) just because we were overbooked with expiring samples and rushwork. I was salaried (and low salary at that), but I don't remember minding it at all since I was unfettered by any wife/girlfriend, kids, or even collecting (1992).

Never again.
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Post by: Paul on August 8, 2006, 12:37 PM
I worked 86 hours one week when I was at Frito-Lay working on the potato chip production line. 

It was a motivator to go to (stay in) school and do other things, I'll tell you that much.
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: Rob on August 8, 2006, 06:18 PM
Well it's over.  I've been given the opportunity to come in tomorrow at noon.

I'm salaried as well - but I was fortunate enough that they hired me as a freelancer for the evenings because I was bascialy double booked on two separate jobs and they were going to farm one of them out but they couldn't find anyone (they generally don't like hiring their own employees...).

Today is the first day since last wednesday I'm not staying late.

At least I got paid pretty well.
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: john todd on August 8, 2006, 06:21 PM
we had an incentive program at work for a while where if you added a night shift you got $25 extra dollars and if you added a morning or afternoon you got $10 extra bucks.  we had quite a few people working 100+ hours during that time.  i think i only worked about 80.  i have worked in the 70's several times, and worked for 36 hours straight but never did go for it and add every single possible shift.
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: Jediknight760071 on August 8, 2006, 06:47 PM
Well, I don't have much to speak for yet...When I was working part time I had a 40 hour week...which was actually great for me, but more than a few hours over the budgeted limit. ::)
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: Madcow on August 9, 2006, 11:54 AM
I've done a few 55-70 weeks. The worst was when I was Assistant Managing a music store. My Boss left for vacation on Saturday, that same night I was in a bad car accident and had a severe concussion. I had to work the rest of that week open to close, alot of it by myself with no one else in the store. That was hands down one of the worst weeks of my life...
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Post by: MistaBinks on August 9, 2006, 02:09 PM
96 hours. I worked four 24 hours shifts in one week.
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Post by: JoshEEE on August 9, 2006, 02:16 PM
I know I've worked a couple of 100+ hour weeks, both containing 48 (or more) hour "days" where I was working without sleep.  This is back when I used to do tech work for events and I had to babysit the setup. That's a 7 day week though, not a 5 day....and those circumstances were rare.

Longest stretch I ever worked was 56 hours, over which I got about an hour and a half of sleep.  I started Weds morning at around 9am or so and didn't finish until Friday afternoon. 

Prior to that job, the most I probably ever worked and was paid for as an hourly employee was maybe 80 or 90 hour weeks, again...all 7 days.






Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: Tracy on August 9, 2006, 02:23 PM
I just went through my journal -- the most I "worked" was when my son was born.  He was up every 2 to 3 hours at night and rarely napped for the first 10 months.  I averaged 18-20 hour days/7 days a week -126/140 hours. :P
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: JoshEEE on August 9, 2006, 02:52 PM
Oooh. There's a tough one to debate.

Does personal life count as work?  I think not (probably why you put it in quotes) but if not, the week I got married was probably the most hours I ever worked.  I got very little sleep at all and with the hundreds of things I had to take care of leading up to the big day, it sure felt like I was working.  ;D
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Post by: Dr. Zoltar on August 9, 2006, 06:55 PM
Hmmmm....I can't remember the exact hours I worked, but back in college I worked as a manger of a tuxedo rental store.  Come prom season I had to put in 12 hour days (it was grad school so my class hours were flexible).  Some days I'd start at 10 am and not leave until 10 pm.  All day long was taking orders and measuring people for tuxedos.

The longest stretch I've worked without a break is 10 days.  By day 7 you get a little loopy.
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: JediMAC on August 12, 2006, 03:18 AM
There were more than several occasions where I put in between 110 to 125 hours in one work week (including the weekend), when some of our audits were up against a serious deadline, and the partners at our firm were about to tear us a new one if the **** didn't get finished on time.  16+ hour days, and sometimes several all-nighters in a week.  I actually used to keep a pillow under my desk so I could lay down for quick catnaps in the middle of the night sometimes.  Pretty disgusting really, and one of the reasons I finally wound up bailing on that gig last year (not to mention the 1 to 1.5 hour 19 mile commute in both directions)...
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: Darth Jaxx on August 12, 2006, 06:40 PM
Just over a month ago, I did 3 weeks on a Navy ship while it was at sea.
I get paid for 16 hours a day while at sea. I'm a contractor for the US Government.
There is nothing else to do on the ship EXCEPT work... so we worked every day.
The job was scheduled for 4 weeks, but we finished in 3 weeks.

At 112 hours a week for 3 weeks... I was pretty damn happy with my paycheck when it came in!

But I wouldn't want to do it again anytime soon.
Title: Re: Most hours you've worked in a week...
Post by: Nicklab on August 13, 2006, 09:25 PM
This past week was 50+ hours.  But the most in one week?  78 hours IIRC.