Author Topic: What's the most hours you've worked in a week? (Read 770 times)

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 09, 2006, 05:30:45 AM »

Wow, I complain when I work over 40 a week that Im tired. Yall make me look like a wimp.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #16 on:** October 09, 2006, 06:02:13 AM »

I worked 30 straight hours last week. 6am Saturday - Noon Sunday. Yeah, that was a looooong day.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #17 on:** October 09, 2006, 06:49:42 AM »

Pulled 18 hours days for nearly a month. A casket company burned, and the electrical contracting company I worked for had a cost plus contract from the insurance company. Four hours of sleep and a 45 minute one way commute. So I had a 1/2 hour for a shower and breakfast, we got a 20 minute break every 3 hours, plus a 1/2 hour for meals (brought to us). I was about 20 years or so old I think, I could never do it today. We finished on a Thursday, ahead of schedule, and I got Friday off with pay (12 hours of pay no less). I got home Thursday night, and slept until Sunday afternoon. I went out to eat, came home, and went back to bed.

We were getting triple time pay from 60 hours on every week (we got 1.5x after 40), I have no idea how much I made (I can't remember what I made that far back, maybe $10 an hour base) but it was a bunch. I think I paid more in taxes than I normally grossed.

I got nothing but gravy assignments for the next month, mostly government contracts. It was a great company to work for, but I didn't care much for being an electrician after a while, and I didn't like the seasonal constrution schedule. I worked all year, but it was often too busy in the good weather months to do what I wanted to do.

Speed55 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:41:23 AM »

I did 112 (16 hours a day for 7 days straight) about 8 years ago when i was a doorman/porter in a fancy building in manhattan during lobby restoration. That was pretty rough. Work from 7am to 11pm, get home at midnight, wind down for an hour, sleep from 1am to 5am and start again.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 09, 2006, 08:59:13 AM »

152 hours. Straight.

Charon · « **Reply #20 on:** October 09, 2006, 10:15:44 AM »

Probably as a trainee in Basic, though as a DI you have me beat there Guns

Wake em up and put em to bed. I would imagine (hope) your schedule will settle out a bit later in the cycle.

In civilian life, probably 72 hrs a week for 6 months -- 12 hrs a day, 6 days a week. I was working as an assembler/fabricator for a company that made heat treating furnaces for the steel industry, and there was a big Indian contract that had to go out the door. Long days with little chance to even deposit yor checks. Good $ for the time though.

Charon

Sparks · « **Reply #21 on:** October 09, 2006, 10:27:48 AM »

108 on the last week of a big Navy contract. We were on serious penalties if it wasn't finished.
50-60 is a standard week for me and 80-90 is normal in the last few days before an "entry in to service" - penalty clauses eh - luv em ......
Just did a 31 straight to get to a problem aircraft.

Human Factors

-Concho- · « **Reply #22 on:** October 09, 2006, 10:30:07 AM »

12 on 12 off for 10 days when Rita went thru the Beaumont area last year.

FiLtH · « **Reply #23 on:** October 09, 2006, 10:42:17 AM »

You guys work too much.

ramzey · « **Reply #24 on:** October 09, 2006, 11:25:53 AM »

Filth,
i belive data they give is time they spend at workplace, not really time they work

midnight Target · « **Reply #25 on:** October 09, 2006, 11:38:55 AM »

always 50+, but I'm management, so it's not "real" work.

Nilsen · « **Reply #26 on:** October 09, 2006, 11:40:59 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
always 50+, but I'm management, so it's not "real" work.

"management".... hmm... fancy word for pimp. I like it

lukster · « **Reply #27 on:** October 09, 2006, 11:50:05 AM »

Did 105 hours one week a month for several months. Wasn't hard work though and you gotta be somewhere so it was no biggie.

lukster · « **Reply #28 on:** October 09, 2006, 11:52:56 AM »

I'm betting nuclear submarine duty wins, or loses, depending on how you look at it.

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #29 on:** October 09, 2006, 12:03:19 PM »

right now 14h or less, the rest is spending surfing the web and daydreaming

but i remember in the early '90 i was once working part time at a
offset print company, we where working 1 month this way:
1 week from 12pm to 12am and the next week 12am to 12pm.
A horrible expirience, you sleep & work, sleep & work... 1 month was more then enough.