| Longest or shortest work shift you done? 14:28 - Aug 16 with 1326 views | Pippin1970 |
Just come off 36 hr shift with waking night. Probably not the best idea in world but good bonus end of month. Shortest Probably 30 mins but still being paid for 10 hrs work lol. |  | | |  |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 14:39 - Aug 16 with 1252 views | gainsboroughblue |
When I had a part-time job, coupled with being on a relief pool, I can recall many days where I would start at 7am at one place and finishing 9am, only to cycle to another job between 9.30-4, then back to the first place to work until 9pm. Because it wasn't guaranteed hours and took what I could, when I could, I remember doing that 30 odd days straight. It would probably kill me now. [Post edited 16 Aug 2021 14:39]
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| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 14:46 - Aug 16 with 1225 views | catch74 |
First job, aged 17 I worked at the Snape Maltings. Did 17 hour shifts several days in a row. Loved it.
Looking after the grounds, helping build sets, set changes during shows etc.
At the same time I managed to get work page turning for Paul Crossley (put Mark initially!) recording Chopin piano works. £15 hour - which in 1991 was decent money. So I’m on a cd but you can’t hear me. Sometimes I was in for less than an hour - only paid for what I did but free food at the Plough and Sail. |  |
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| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 14:51 - Aug 16 with 1210 views | Warkystache |
Worked in Birmingham - travelled from Lawford to Birmingham (up at 5.30am to get in to the office for 9.00am) then had to book an hotel for the night as we had an internal audit the next day and so we all worked til 8pm to get the paperwork ready.
Finally got out of the office at 9.30pm, went for a drink and a bite with colleagues in the local pub down Broad Street and then to the hotel (Jury's Inn) at 11.30pm, up at 6am the next morning for breakfast and then in the office by 8am to update the auditors with financial stuff and ensure the correct reports were finished. Worked til 6.30pm then drove home to Lawford, home by 9.30pm, quick snack and a drink, bed, up at 5.30am for the next day in Birmingham.
This went on for a week Monday to Saturday. I had two hotel overnighters. My firm still haven't paid me back for one of them (this was in 2019). Mind you, I got a very nice bonus...... |  |
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| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 15:14 - Aug 16 with 1157 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 14:46 - Aug 16 by catch74 |
First job, aged 17 I worked at the Snape Maltings. Did 17 hour shifts several days in a row. Loved it.
Looking after the grounds, helping build sets, set changes during shows etc.
At the same time I managed to get work page turning for Paul Crossley (put Mark initially!) recording Chopin piano works. £15 hour - which in 1991 was decent money. So I’m on a cd but you can’t hear me. Sometimes I was in for less than an hour - only paid for what I did but free food at the Plough and Sail. |
Made sense when it was Mark- would have been murder for him to try and turn his own pages during a Concerto with those gloves on!
As for being on the CD but not being heard- you should have given one of the turns an extra ruffley flourish! | | | |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 15:29 - Aug 16 with 1115 views | BlueBlueBluex2 |
Paper round (in car) 05:00 - 08:00 - on to day job 09:00-1700, then food delivery 18:00 - Midnight, 7 days a week for 5 years. | | | |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 15:41 - Aug 16 with 1068 views | Vic |
What impresses me most is that after such a long shift you check in and post on TWTD before hitting the sack! Kudos.. |  |
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| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 15:54 - Aug 16 with 1041 views | eastangliaisblue |
I once worked 38 days straight, working 10-12 hours a day. It was very physical work, by the end of it I was close to collapse. It's really not healthy working that much. I wouldn't do it again. |  | | |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:06 - Aug 16 with 1006 views | GeoffSentence |
36 hours was my longest too.
It came about because half my team were on a training course, the other half - mostly management - were on a jolly at Brand's Hatch courtesy of Hewlett Packard, leaving me to cover everything on my own.
It would have been alright but for the combination of a freak rainstorm and leaking roof causing an electrical short which took down an entire customer site which I had to recover on my own. So not only was it a 36 hour shift, it was 36 hours of relentless effort. |  |
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| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:09 - Aug 16 with 1002 views | Eiffel78 |
Longest wasn't technically a single shift, but might as well have been. I'd start at 5pm on Tuesday, support two lads in their house until 10 then do the sleepover (technically 10-7, but they'd usually keep me awake until 12 or 1 at least) before going back on duty 7-9. At 9 I'd have an hour to pop home for a shower (fortunately lived 5 minutes away, in NW Ipswich), grab lunch, get across Ipswich to pick up a pool car then out to Kesgrave for 10. I'd support another lad 10-4 then have an hour to get back to the office, return the pool car and pick up mine, get home to collect dinner and a change of clothes before being back at the first home for 5. I'd then support them until 10, sleepover 10pm-7am (again kept awake until at least 12 or 1) and back on duty 7-9. I'd then have an hour to pop home for a shower, grab lunch, get across Ipswich to pick up a pool car then out to Kesgrave for 10 and support that client again 10-4. Effectively worked 47 hours and even the time I could sleep wasn't proper sleep, as anyone who's done support work will attest.
Shortest was 0. I had to stay at the client's house in case they came back, which was irritating, but I knew they'd be out the entire time so got paid 20 hours for sitting around watching DVDs and playing Football Manager. |  | | |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:20 - Aug 16 with 978 views | PrideOfTheEast |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 14:51 - Aug 16 by Warkystache |
Worked in Birmingham - travelled from Lawford to Birmingham (up at 5.30am to get in to the office for 9.00am) then had to book an hotel for the night as we had an internal audit the next day and so we all worked til 8pm to get the paperwork ready.
Finally got out of the office at 9.30pm, went for a drink and a bite with colleagues in the local pub down Broad Street and then to the hotel (Jury's Inn) at 11.30pm, up at 6am the next morning for breakfast and then in the office by 8am to update the auditors with financial stuff and ensure the correct reports were finished. Worked til 6.30pm then drove home to Lawford, home by 9.30pm, quick snack and a drink, bed, up at 5.30am for the next day in Birmingham.
This went on for a week Monday to Saturday. I had two hotel overnighters. My firm still haven't paid me back for one of them (this was in 2019). Mind you, I got a very nice bonus...... |
Bar the length of commute that’s basically my working life and has been for circa 15 years. | | | |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:27 - Aug 16 with 957 views | textbackup |
longest shift is 16hrs
consecutive days - 40 which sounds mad, but in reality 80% of those were WFH sat in the garden on lockdown 1 |  |
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| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:31 - Aug 16 with 938 views | J2BLUE |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 15:29 - Aug 16 by BlueBlueBluex2 |
Paper round (in car) 05:00 - 08:00 - on to day job 09:00-1700, then food delivery 18:00 - Midnight, 7 days a week for 5 years. |
Sounds likely. |  |
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| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:35 - Aug 16 with 919 views | Pippin1970 |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 15:41 - Aug 16 by Vic |
What impresses me most is that after such a long shift you check in and post on TWTD before hitting the sack! Kudos.. |
Obvious withdrawal symptoms if I don't lol | | | |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:59 - Aug 16 with 864 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:09 - Aug 16 by Eiffel78 |
Longest wasn't technically a single shift, but might as well have been. I'd start at 5pm on Tuesday, support two lads in their house until 10 then do the sleepover (technically 10-7, but they'd usually keep me awake until 12 or 1 at least) before going back on duty 7-9. At 9 I'd have an hour to pop home for a shower (fortunately lived 5 minutes away, in NW Ipswich), grab lunch, get across Ipswich to pick up a pool car then out to Kesgrave for 10. I'd support another lad 10-4 then have an hour to get back to the office, return the pool car and pick up mine, get home to collect dinner and a change of clothes before being back at the first home for 5. I'd then support them until 10, sleepover 10pm-7am (again kept awake until at least 12 or 1) and back on duty 7-9. I'd then have an hour to pop home for a shower, grab lunch, get across Ipswich to pick up a pool car then out to Kesgrave for 10 and support that client again 10-4. Effectively worked 47 hours and even the time I could sleep wasn't proper sleep, as anyone who's done support work will attest.
Shortest was 0. I had to stay at the client's house in case they came back, which was irritating, but I knew they'd be out the entire time so got paid 20 hours for sitting around watching DVDs and playing Football Manager. |
Sounds very much like the job I used to do. | |
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| I once stayed in the office..... on 17:04 - Aug 16 with 846 views | Bloots |
....until just after 6:00pm.
I got in before 9:00am too. |  |
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| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 17:06 - Aug 16 with 838 views | DanTheMan |
Did a 24h+ shift once to get a nasty deployment out the door. All went well and then took the day after off. |  |
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| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 17:07 - Aug 16 with 836 views | yesjohn99 |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:27 - Aug 16 by textbackup |
longest shift is 16hrs
consecutive days - 40 which sounds mad, but in reality 80% of those were WFH sat in the garden on lockdown 1 |
Wow!!
Im only allowed to work 13 consecutive days and must have 12 Hours rest in between turns. Pressures of the railway man! | | | |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 17:44 - Aug 16 with 796 views | BlueBlueBluex2 |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:31 - Aug 16 by J2BLUE |
Sounds likely. |
Possibly but very true.
Purchased my first flat outright off the back of it before putting a hefty deposit down on a second to rent out, all by the age of 19.
Found out not long after that I had an overactive thyroid, which may well have helped in the graft. | | | |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 17:47 - Aug 16 with 784 views | Pippin1970 |
| Longest or shortest work shift you done? on 16:09 - Aug 16 by Eiffel78 |
Longest wasn't technically a single shift, but might as well have been. I'd start at 5pm on Tuesday, support two lads in their house until 10 then do the sleepover (technically 10-7, but they'd usually keep me awake until 12 or 1 at least) before going back on duty 7-9. At 9 I'd have an hour to pop home for a shower (fortunately lived 5 minutes away, in NW Ipswich), grab lunch, get across Ipswich to pick up a pool car then out to Kesgrave for 10. I'd support another lad 10-4 then have an hour to get back to the office, return the pool car and pick up mine, get home to collect dinner and a change of clothes before being back at the first home for 5. I'd then support them until 10, sleepover 10pm-7am (again kept awake until at least 12 or 1) and back on duty 7-9. I'd then have an hour to pop home for a shower, grab lunch, get across Ipswich to pick up a pool car then out to Kesgrave for 10 and support that client again 10-4. Effectively worked 47 hours and even the time I could sleep wasn't proper sleep, as anyone who's done support work will attest.
Shortest was 0. I had to stay at the client's house in case they came back, which was irritating, but I knew they'd be out the entire time so got paid 20 hours for sitting around watching DVDs and playing Football Manager. |
Football manager now that was a game. | | | |
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