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Just wondered what the longest shift was anyone had worked?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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morning everyone.i am a support worker and I am an hour into my 31.5 hr shift, was just wondering what the longest shift was any of you had worked .....have a fucktastic day and happy swinging x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I do project work. At times its all guns blazing. Once I went into work on a Friday morning and then I was told to go home on the Sunday afternoon lest I injure myself!!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"morning everyone.i am a support worker and I am an hour into my 31.5 hr shift, was just wondering what the longest shift was any of you had worked .....have a fucktastic day and happy swinging x"
I did 5 days with a total of 6 hours sleep and by the end was vomiting, incoherent, dizzy and on the point of collapse. Never again!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"morning everyone.i am a support worker and I am an hour into my 31.5 hr shift, was just wondering what the longest shift was any of you had worked .....have a fucktastic day and happy swinging x
I did 5 days with a total of 6 hours sleep and by the end was vomiting, incoherent, dizzy and on the point of collapse. Never again!!"
Not so good then least I get to sleep if he's not anxious x |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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I did 60 hours once.
I worked Friday, during which a numptie, who should never have been allowed near a server, trashed the system responsible for processing online orders. I spent the entire weekend trying to put it back together in time for Monday morning. I got home at 8pm on Sunday. And then was back in the following morning. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well it's hard to say how long but was once working on a large refurbishment job on a famous London cricket ground.
And a very famous listed building at same time. Cricket ground during day other night and weekends.
So used to leave about five on Monday morning work all day till about 5:30 grab some food travel to other location ready to start once all staff had left about 6:30 we would work all night till about 3:30 travel home quick shower an hour or so kip and start again.
Friday we would work right through till about 9 Sunday evening then go home for a decent kip.
Did this for about three weeks until we all started getting Ill as working our bollox off heavy manual labour.
One day just blurs into another.
Couldn't imagine being able to do that now.
Easy when you are in your 20's.
That said the guy in charge worked with us and he was a work pervert and was hardest worker there.
He was mid 50's hat's off to you bill.
Rip
Never had a day off sick in the 30 year's working for the company, until he just dropped dead.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Whilst in the Army I worked 48 hours straight through when certain jobs had to be done (I was an Engineer) but most front line soldiers go for days surviving on the odd cat nap |
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"Whilst in the Army I worked 48 hours straight through when certain jobs had to be done (I was an Engineer) but most front line soldiers go for days surviving on the odd cat nap"
ditto..
once told a rupert that if i didn't have some sleep near the end of a 4 day bridge gallop operating my crane i would end up killing someone and he would be alongside me at the Courts martial..
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Once drove to a job in Southampton, which was a four hour drive, got there 8am, worked through til 8am the following morning, to 8pm....to 10pm the next night. 42 hours total.
Yes, was knackered at the end of it.
Done plenty other 'ghosters' (as we call those kind of shifts) over the years though but that was the most hours. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Longest week I did, was working in Sunderland, all week was 8am til midnight. Then on Thursday worked through until mid-day the next day. Came in the Saturday and Sunday and worked 8am til 8pm.
This was pipefitting by the way, lifting and installing heavy steel pipes up to 6" diameter, not sat on backsides supping coffees in some security hut  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Longest week I did, was working in Sunderland, all week was 8am til midnight. Then on Thursday worked through until mid-day the next day. Came in the Saturday and Sunday and worked 8am til 8pm.
This was pipefitting by the way, lifting and installing heavy steel pipes up to 6" diameter, not sat on backsides supping coffees in some security hut "
With the time and half and double times etc kicking in that week was 170 hours on the timesheet, with 8 hours in lieu that we used to get when we did a ghoster, which later got paid rather than the day off, so a total of 178 hours in for the week. Did similar hours for about a month or so on that job but that week was the most.
Was hard work doing it but was not long before Christmas and paid for a lovely Christmas that year hehe, though the bloody taxman took a good wedge of it too    |
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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago
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"Longest week I did, was working in Sunderland, all week was 8am til midnight. Then on Thursday worked through until mid-day the next day. Came in the Saturday and Sunday and worked 8am til 8pm.
This was pipefitting by the way, lifting and installing heavy steel pipes up to 6" diameter, not sat on backsides supping coffees in some security hut "
I was on 15 hr shifts 07:00 to 22:00 and working on an MOD base splitting my time between patrolling and doing car searched. No time sat on my jacksey thanks. Also, cycle to & from work too another 30 mins each way. No idea how I did it then, I feel tired thinking about it. All for standard pay, no overtime, no weekend pay, n Lieu time no nothig. Pay was (and still is) notoriously tight in Security, but if you have bills to pay you get off your arse and you work for the money. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"morning everyone.i am a support worker and I am an hour into my 31.5 hr shift, was just wondering what the longest shift was any of you had worked .....have a fucktastic day and happy swinging x"
Truthfully I've worked 9 consecutive shifts with 3 hours sleep....yes I'm greedy but I have a lifestyle to pay for  |
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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago
Wymondham |
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"4 14 hour shifts in a row (thurs-sun) and i was knackered off that. Doubt i could do one 14 hr shift these days.
Yeah but you used a time machine for that lol"
Hello. 
And, hahaha made me laugh. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Normally only work seven hours or so. Did a 19 hour one once because it was fun and have some great colleagues around me not to mention a shit ton of money was earnt. |
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I have been working an 18 year shift since my oldest was born as I don't think I have ever turned off as a parent ... three of them, single parent, never had a proper night's sleep as any movement they make I hear it ... oldest is about to set off for the USA, plus the day job of course |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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7.30am sat day shift,then drive to night shift,then Sunday day shift,drive to Sunday night shift,slept most of that,then Monday day till 18.30,slept fair bit Monday night! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you."
Luxury........
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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago
Wymondham |
"Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
Luxury........
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What I'd give for a spoon of cold gravel right now. |
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