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Title: What's the most hours you've worked in a week?
Post by: Gunslinger on October 08, 2006, 09:53:07 PM: Mine was last week.....worked 126 hours. 0400 to about 2130/2200 (4AM to 10 PM sunday to saturday. I've been working this since the 26th and I'm pooped. :(
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Post by: skernsk on October 08, 2006, 10:33:40 PM: Got me beat.

I did 98 hours in a week, followed by 100.5 the next week. You don't want to know how much I paid in taxes on that cheque.:confused:
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Post by: Halo on October 08, 2006, 11:22:04 PM: I think a lot of military and law enforcement and others like some medical and emergency people would say 168 -- 24/7, way more than they would like, because even their rest is subject to no-notice requirements.

What's the record for actually staying awake and still functioning? Three or four days?

126 hours is a LOT. 18-hour days. On behalf of the rest of us, thanks for all that hard work.
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Post by: rpm on October 08, 2006, 11:30:58 PM: Not counting OTR trucking, the longest week I worked was 112 hours doing road construction. I also had a 3 hour round trip commute.
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Post by: Halo on October 08, 2006, 11:41:39 PM: Without remembering the exact hours, I recall a particular stretch of excessive work for a month. By the end of that time, everyone was so tired it was like being punchdrunk. You had to be very careful or errors could quickly multiply because of fatigue.

Since then I've always thought a month of max effort was about the limit that could be sustained before performance degradation sets in, however subtly.

How does that track with the experience of contributors to this thread?
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Post by: FUNKED1 on October 08, 2006, 11:55:00 PM: About 120, government job believe it or not.
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Post by: Rolex on October 09, 2006, 01:05:08 AM: How many were productive? That's the rub. Were you just there making mistakes? If you're working for yourself, have at it. If you're working that much and getting paid by someone for being on the clock, it's gross mismanagement.
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Post by: rpm on October 09, 2006, 01:08:56 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Halo
Without remembering the exact hours, I recall a particular stretch of excessive work for a month. By the end of that time, everyone was so tired it was like being punchdrunk. You had to be very careful or errors could quickly multiply because of fatigue.

Since then I've always thought a month of max effort was about the limit that could be sustained before performance degradation sets in, however subtly.

How does that track with the experience of contributors to this thread?
I'd agree with that. You get in a rut, get in a rhythm and get careless. Tunnel vision sets in pretty quick, too.

Rolex, in my case it was a construction deadline that had to be met. We got it done in time and saved the company $10,000 a day on contract penalty.
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Post by: Pooh21 on October 09, 2006, 01:31:13 AM: During peak season in Dec. its easy from 5-9pm. That isnt so bad. earlier I worked in the depot here for a german shipping company and they wanted us there from 5-9am and from 14:30-8pm and that wasnt counting the commute of 1:30 there in the mornings and 45 minutes on the way home. that got old fast
Title: Re: What's the most hours you've worked in a week?
Post by: ramzey on October 09, 2006, 01:45:16 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Gunslinger
Mine was last week.....worked 126 hours. 0400 to about 2130/2200 (4AM to 10 PM sunday to saturday. I've been working this since the 26th and I'm pooped. :(

i can be incorrect but, you not work, you serve
diference? hell yes

you get soldier's pay
we get salary

we can quit anytime
you will get courtmartial

we can say sh** about goverment
you cant

i bet you dont have union..........
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Post by: Nilsen on October 09, 2006, 03:41:04 AM: In civilian life i would say 50 hours max.

That is effective hours.

Ive had weeks were i may have spent over 60 in the office but the effective hours were still in the 50s.. Sitting in an office for an hour just because you had to be there/available for some reason would not count as an effective hour in my book.
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Post by: AquaShrimp on October 09, 2006, 03:49:43 AM: I thought everyone in Norway was a fisherman? :confused:
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Post by: B@tfinkV on October 09, 2006, 03:55:10 AM: lol shrimp.

i once woked for the chain 'TGI Fridays' singing happy birthdays for kids and stuff. worked there for about 8 months and i think the longest hours i ever worked was about 80 in a week. thats made up of split shifts and overtime, got very rich and the tips were amazing.

building fences (IE a weeks work of manual labour) i wont top more than 9 hours a day, and i earn 3 times more than i did in TGI fridays, but therre arnt as many attractive waitresses.
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Post by: Angus on October 09, 2006, 04:32:04 AM: 130 or so. Agricultural stuff. Darn, was I tired :(
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Post by: Schatzi on October 09, 2006, 05:20:34 AM: 15 hours a day, 7 days a week. For three months.
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Post by: BlueJ1 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.
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Post by: DiabloTX 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.
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Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts 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.
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Post by: Speed55 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.
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Post by: lasersailor184 on October 09, 2006, 08:59:13 AM: 152 hours. Straight.
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Post by: Charon 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
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Post by: Sparks 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 :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Post by: -Concho- on October 09, 2006, 10:30:07 AM: 12 on 12 off for 10 days when Rita went thru the Beaumont area last year.
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Post by: FiLtH on October 09, 2006, 10:42:17 AM: You guys work too much.
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Post by: ramzey 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
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Post by: midnight Target on October 09, 2006, 11:38:55 AM: always 50+, but I'm management, so it's not "real" work.

:cool:
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Post by: Nilsen on October 09, 2006, 11:40:59 AM: Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
always 50+, but I'm management, so it's not "real" work.

:cool:

"management".... hmm... fancy word for pimp. I like it :aok
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Post by: lukster 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.
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Post by: lukster on October 09, 2006, 11:52:56 AM: I'm betting nuclear submarine duty wins, or loses, depending on how you look at it.
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Post by: Gh0stFT 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.
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Post by: vorticon on October 09, 2006, 01:02:21 PM: 73, not including the hour before and after work where nothing happened.
Title: What's the most hours you've worked in a week?
Post by: Gunslinger on October 09, 2006, 05:11:38 PM: Quote
Originally posted by ramzey
Filth,
i belive data they give is time they spend at workplace, not really time they work

I see your point, out of my day depending on the schedule I could have any where from1 to 5 hours of actual down time. The worse part is the hunger. When you just pick up the new trainees you are watching them like a hawk when they eat chow and as soon as they are done you step to your next scheduled training event. The first two weeks we are on the go constantly and when we are not physically with the trainees we have a ton of paperwork and extra dutys to attend to. SO you are sleep deprived, malnurished and usually sick from being around the trainees and required to be perfect no matter what.

Somtimes it's more than hard not to lose your temper when dealing with these kids in that type of environment. I've had to be pulled off a kid more than a few times because I was ready to punch him in throat but that's kinda normal around here. ;)

To top it off we are all perfectionists so we mess with each other alot (rookies, myself being one) catch the brunt of it. I think they could make a case study out of some of us. Sleep deprivation induced terretts syndrome. ;)
The weird part is coming home, I don't know what to do with myself. At least my TIVO has been on. :aok
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Post by: JTs on October 09, 2006, 05:42:13 PM: thank god for log books. 70 hours in 8 days is the most i can work.:lol :rofl
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Post by: lukster on October 09, 2006, 09:21:34 PM: I bet it'll get easier Gun. I went through AF basic in '73. We had two TI's assigned to us. A tech and a buck sgt. They swapped off and we rarely saw them both at the same time.
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Post by: eskimo2 on October 09, 2006, 10:45:54 PM: As a small business owner I used to bust 100 hours all summer long. A couple weeks would probably hit 130.
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Post by: cav58d on October 09, 2006, 10:51:01 PM: Quote
Originally posted by lasersailor184
152 hours. Straight.

I didnt know you did blow
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Post by: lasersailor184 on October 09, 2006, 11:32:17 PM: The desire to not flunk out of college is stronger then any drug... For some people.

7 days and 6 nights of an architecture project. I can say without any pride, our project kicked ass.
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Post by: cav58d on October 09, 2006, 11:44:17 PM: Man...You sure left it to the last minute! jk...

Most time I ever spent studying for a single course in college was maybe four hours tops in one day...I was a very good note taker, and was able to retain most of the stuff I was taught, but I have since lost that ability, and now that I have graduated school I am a bum....=( I miss college
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Post by: FiLtH on October 09, 2006, 11:47:56 PM: Ya Ramsey Im a grunt, so usually when Im working its entails running pipe, and stuff, the other hours of planning and billing arent included.
Title: Re: What's the most hours you've worked in a week?
Post by: MrCoffee on October 10, 2006, 12:30:06 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Gunslinger
Mine was last week.....worked 126 hours. 0400 to about 2130/2200 (4AM to 10 PM sunday to saturday. I've been working this since the 26th and I'm pooped. :(

After 60 hours, you realize your working for free arent you.
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Post by: x0847Marine on October 10, 2006, 07:01:49 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Halo
I think a lot of military and law enforcement and others like some medical and emergency people would say 168 -- 24/7, way more than they would like, because even their rest is subject to no-notice requirements.

92 LA riots, that was 4 days pretty much non stop with cat naps here and there.

Made mad bank.
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Post by: lasersailor184 on October 10, 2006, 07:13:22 AM: Unfortunately, I had not left it to the last minute. For about 3 weeks, I had spent roughly 3-5 evenings in the computer lab doing work on it.
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Post by: MrBill on October 10, 2006, 12:48:58 PM: Back in the 70's I worked for the forest service during the (at the time) worst fire season ever in the US. For 6 weeks we loaded trucks and planes with equipment for the lines. The first week it was 12 on 12 off with a day off every 4th shift. In week 5 every time you finished a load you just passed out right where you were till the next truck or plane needed loading. There is little doubt in my mind that I (nor anyone else who stuck it out) did not get a full 20 hours both eating and sleeping that entire week. I went from 200 lbs down to 175 in that one week ... I do not think that I have ever felt closer to dying just from sheer exhaustion.
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Post by: Gunslinger on October 10, 2006, 10:29:48 PM: Quote
Originally posted by MrCoffee
After 60 hours, you realize your working for free arent you.

I'm sure if you took the civilian equivilant pay to my salery I'd be working for free after about 20 or 30. :(
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Post by: 101ABN on October 11, 2006, 05:01:40 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Gunslinger
Mine was last week.....worked 126 hours. 0400 to about 2130/2200 (4AM to 10 PM sunday to saturday. I've been working this since the 26th and I'm pooped. :( [/QUOTE

im about the same...