I am scedualed for 12 hr shifts but work more 16 hr shifts than 12s . In fact i have not worked a 12 all year.

I worked 16 yesterday/my last shift and
At 7am i will have been at work this shift 32hours. Yes thats right 32 hr. It may go out to 36 i am not sure yet if i will stay when offered.

This is the longest i have ever been at work without leaving. With the ice they asked if we would stay for 32 hrs with an 8 hr break spent on sight in between for legal reasons. I have sleep about 3 hrs off and on in tthe last few days. I figured it was better than driving back and forth on slick roads with no sleep. Besided I go to work to make money after all.

Anyone else as dumb as I am?

Working in the oil field, I would routinely work 24 to 30 hours straight to get work completed. Rig time is so expensive, no food breaks etc.

I did 80 hrs in week. Once, and only once!

Now thats hard core tougher than me for sure. I think im getting to old for this though. May be part of my recently developed health issues.

Probably just over 24hrs. I work for the rural electric company and on storms can work 20+ Pretty common in storms but the company doesn’t like when we are over 16 without a rest period of 8 hrs because we stay on double time until we get a rest period

Those are some long hours.I used to work 12 hour shifts when I worked for the union on power plant shutdowns.

At harvest on the farm 16-18 hrs for days on end. Lose any idea of day of the week and date of month. Hope it doesn’t rain while secretly really hoping it does.

Was just on the clock for 48 1/2 hours doing snow removal.

Spring planting is the same way, 16 to 20 hours a day. No days off unless it rains, but only lasts about 3 weeks.

Working with the bee's we had many 16 to 18 hour days,most I ever worked in a week was 105 hours depended on the time of the season many 75 to 80 hour weeks.65 was about average.

When doing golf course construction, and only so many warm months to grow turf in Northern Michigan. I took my travel trailer to the site. Push dirt, pop stumps, haul sand, trench pipe. If weather was workable, we worked, day and night and cat napped. Rain days were spent power sleeping and planning. Greens were built and planted while still stumping shaping fairways. We had 3 ladies that road around with food, beverages daily. 40 hours straight time and 40 or so overtime for 3 summers. Clear and burn in winter dirt work in summer. Wouldn't trade the experience for nothing.

When I was a Drill Instructor we worked 110 hours a week. It wasn’t uncommon to work 126 hours in a week.

I’ve worked a couple 24 hour shifts it always made laugh one person is happy you worked and the next boss tells you to not do it again. LOL The last time I did that I took kids on a fishing trip for the last shift. My nickname was Mr. Overtime among other names.

Trying to remember how many hours I actually worked... But I walked in the door almost 25 hours after I left once.

Don't remember what month it was but it was cold enough to be pretty miserable.

Spent a Saturday on a shutdown for a customer so we could change out breakers for load bank test equipment. As I was wrapping up to go home my boss sent out a company-wide text looking for help... Bunch of wiring on the dynamic brake of a crane had failed... Big clamshell job at a concrete plant. Spent the better part of Saturday night and early Sunday morning getting it back up.

Had to drop the company van back off at the first customer's plant and then drive home... That was a long drive.

Paycheck looked good though.

Mike

Worked alot of 20 hr days,,120-140 hr weeks 6 months at a time. No more.

Back when I worked for a power contractor we worked 34 hrs straight, no way I could’ve drove home slept in the lot when we got back. Most in one week was 110 hrs..... don’t miss it a bit

Worked long hours on train wrecks.3,4 days straight.
Catch an hour sleep in an upside down boxcar here and there.

In 1982, I stayed underground fighting a coal mine for 27.5 hours. In 1984, I pulled five 17 hour shifts one week, mine was only 35” high. About the same time, I was the pumper for the mine, worked ten consecutive weeks without a day off. ( including a 15 shift on Easter Sunday ).

Hauled many tons of IBP beef from Emporia KS to Tampa FL or Miami FL or L.A. Had 36 hours delivery time. Speed limit was 55. Tampa is about 2 hours closer.

Loaded tomatoes multiple times in CA with a 3rd morning delivery to the Boston produce market. I got a 500 dollar bonus for being on time when I did that. Back then 500 bucks would easy buy what 1500 will now.

That stuff was pretty common. I figured sooner or later I would be dead so quit that reefer nonsense after about a year.

Back in '75 early '76 I worked for Moog Hydraulic in East Aurora, NY. My main focus was design work on the F-15 fighter with a little bit of Space Shuttle design work just to break up the monotony. The F-15 aspect was cost plus with a special allowance from the state labor board regarding work hours per week. Soooo, we were required to work 16 hrs a day for six days, 12 hrs on Sunday every week with every other Sunday off. Thirteen days straight. This went on for 14 or 15 months. Talk about dragging your butt. Interesting thing was it was all done on drafting boards using slide rules, very few calculators. What few there were only had add, subtract, multiply, divide, and percentage functions. Primitive to say the least. There was no way I could have done it again when I retired at 58 and there is no way I would recommend it, even for a young guy. It just takes too big a toll, to many mistakes can be made, some costly. There were several divorces and separations. A few accidents, guys falling asleep driving to and from work. I really don't understand how farmers do it at harvest time. My hat's off to you guys.