Longest number of consecutive days you ever worked??

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I just finished working 9 days straight, I have today off, then I work another 9 days straight.

9 days is not the longest stretch I have ever worked without a day off, if I remember correctly it was something like 23 days when I was a keyholder at two different stores at the same company. When I wasn't at one I was at the other and vice versa. That was a long, long stretch.

I am certain there are SCers that have gone much longer so I wanted to know who's been the biggest workhorse around here?

[crazylegs]

Uh, for me it's around 20 days, but that was for RIAT rather than a paid job, which would only be around the 16 day mark.

[Evil Queen]

12 days was my longest and BOY was my SO pissed.

That is until I showed him a pay stub for a shitload of OT. :D

[KellyHabersham]

I work two jobs, so I'm not sure it's quite the same thing, but.....let's just say that unless the library gives me Friday, Saturday, or Sunday off, I have to work every day.

[freeatlast]

While working in the Call Center from hell full time and the discount tobacco store part time, I worked 7 days a week from mid-July to the weekend before Christmas. I even worked a required shift on Thanksgiving at the tobacco store, while it was a holiday for the Call Center. Once I was downsized from the Call Center and quit the tobacco store, I didn't know what to do with all of my free time.

[Custard Chick]

13 days straight, working two jobs. I was working a 9-5:30 internship during the week (which was more like 8-7 because of the commute) and working at least 16 hour during the weekend at Panera's.

It was horrible. On the 13th day I hid in the bathroom and cried for 15 minutes because I was so tired and stressed. It was then I basically bitched out the manager doing the schedule and told him I could only work one day a week. Thankfully, they were fine with that.

[Kiwi]

23 days

the christmas I worked for the gift store I worked 12noon -9pm every single day

it paid for almost an entire semesters tution in one go but I slept until 10am on christmas day!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I'm not sure the exact number, but 12 days sounds about right.

This was in 2005 when the store was being remodeled. Somehow it worked out I never got an hour of overtime during this stretch.

[Boggles]

I once did 28 12 hour days solid after the boss got hospitalised. After the first 2 weeks i was just on auto-pilot.

[daleduke17]

Something around the 22 day mark. This was at the Eagle store I was at. I ended up taking a lot of call-ins and lucked out as one person got fired and I got most of her hours. At the end of the stretch the store manager asked me how many days I had worked in a row, I told her and ended the sentence with "...and tomorrow is my day off...please don't call me." They didn't.

Thank God.

[RetailWorkhorse]

8 days, and the day before I boarded a plane for a Convention I closed up the store.

Then didn't sleep the whole time at the Con (well, I did sleep, but not very well nor long), and went back on shift the day I got home (just to close up, I didn't run a register for longer than 45 minutes).

[JLRodgers]

If you count working for yourself and not having free time in the normal sense -- 8 years and counting :lol:

But for normal jobs things... probably 2 months*-- unoficially, officially probably only like 12.


* I would come in and help the manager with things, she'd come in at times and help me -- basically we were "working" every day for like two months. It only amounted to like 5min-1hr of extra work a day so not "work" in the traditional sense (sometimes we clocked in, most times not). Mainly it was since we weren't allowed to hire more people (told to cut back hours) -- and the other person that could close wouldn't do his work and messed up everything, so the person coming in after had 2x the work to do. Also couldn't fire him until the manager saw it, then we found out we were being shut down so it didn't matter. And when the other 3 employees had only 10 hours a week... at a pizza place.... And frequently we'd call in to place an "order" then realize "oh look, there's things that need to be done! I'll just make my own order :)" Oh look a phone call and the manger's in the bathroom "I got it :)" types of things.

[SubwayGirl]

When Subway started their any footlong for $5 promotion I worked 29 days straight. Our business had increased about 45% and I felt guilty leaving my employees to handle it by themselves. I saw the end in sight. The promotion was only supposed to last for 6 weeks. I actually cried when I found out that they continued it for a couple of more weeks. Boy was I stressed, but I survived. I have vowed to never do that again. You have got to have a break. Now the most I do is 12 days straight.

[Sableonblonde]

137 days. (I win!)

Well, it's not as bad as it sounds. I work seven days a week, but it is actually a part time job - I only work four hours a day. Truthfully, it has been a lot easier and less stressful to work only a few hours a day, everyday, rather than 8 hours a day for five days a week. I get my job done and have the whole rest of the day to myself. I finally took a weekend off at the beginning of August to go on vacation, or else my streak would have been longer.

[nomorecarts]

8 4 hour days are the most i've done, but I'm a minor, and corporate policy says I can't work more than 5 days in a row(no one bothered to tell me that until they switched me to FT and started saying all the violations that could screw it up for everyone, and told everyone except me and maybe 1 other person they'd be fired if they had a violation) so they gave us split days off, so 3 days in a row is the most i've done in the past couple months

get back to me after the holiday season though, I'll be eligible for OT then

[Pezzle]

Lmao two months straight for me so far at around 3 1/2 hours a day. Such is life of newspaper delivery though, NEVER a day off! :lol: It's starting to catch up with me again though, I'm tired all the time and have no social life.

In retail: 10 days straight, about 58 hours and plenty of money. This was around Black Friday too so a good whopping 18 hour shift is worked in there.

[powerboy]

15 11hr days. Working at my first factory job. I just got hired on and the department that I was in, was doing a lot of over time. I didn't mind, because I knew the check was going to be a lot. And it was. I was a fourth generation at that factory. Shame that they had to close up.

[edible_hat]

Mine was fifteen, when working for a company that owned 13 stores. It was flu season so I was filling in for various sick people at various stores, in addition to my rostered shifts. It ended because of a memo to store managers. Something along the lines of "Ed is a fantastic worker, but check with head office before offering him extra shifts because he's costing us too much in overtime".

[eltf177]

Back many decades ago when I worked on the EPA ship we worked 7 days a week and were lucky to get off one day a month. That wasn't the worst part, the worst part was the unpaid (and unappreciated) overtime. In Florida we had a 'mission' that was really a holiday junket; _everybody_ was diving and my partner and I were putting in 16+ hours a day for almost a week! And no, the extra time _wasn't_ paid! After a year I'd had enough.

I _despised_ that job with a passion. More than once I thought a real-life remake of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY or THE CAINE MUTINY was in order!

[pile of monkeys]

33 days. I had to fire a full time employee (my store had 3 FT and 2 PT employees) the week before Thanksgiving for theft. My DM was "too busy" at other stores to come interview or approve a new hire. The mall, the week before Christmas, was open around 95 hours. I worked all of them, plus figure 1/2 hour to 45 minutes before and after for opening and closing. I was on salary. Never saw a dime of overtime. On the 33rd day, I quit, and from what I heard the DM actually had to work, as an employee, in that store until he found 2 new FT employees.

[blas]

Between 3 and 4 weeks straight at the gas station. When the girl who (already as it was) called in sick nearly every day "hurt" herself and couldn't work (doctor's orders ya know!) for 3 weeks. The first two or two and a half weeks it was just my manager, the asst manager, and me. That's IT. None of us got a day off. We were able to hire someone, and she eventually came back, but ended up quitting a few weeks later after that.

[hecubus]

At the first movie theater I worked at, one summer I worked 42 days straight. Granted, they were only 5 hour shifts, but still, it was a pain. I guess I was the only cashier who was available to work afternoons.

[draggar]

I lost count. It was the holiday season and I was working in a grocerey store and just got promoted to asst deli manager.

But the OT checks were sweet. :)

[icmedia]

At the last restaurant job, I worked 3 months of 70+ hour weeks and no days off. One day off, then I was officially a salaried manager working open to close (9am-2am) with no days off for 5 more months. To say caffeine was my friend is an understatement...more like my mother/lover/father/brother. The only good thing about being fired from that job was the sleep.

At my current job, I still work overtime every week, but I insist on having every Sunday off. Period.

[Sheldonrs]

6 weeks straight. Working for the book store at Rutgers Univ. The "unofficial" one. 12-15 hours per day. The beginning of the semester. But it was worth it. Aside from my regular pay which was 12.00 per hour, I wound up with over $6,000.00 in bonus money because they paid you at least 1.00 for every hour you worked during the rush period. Since I had been there for a while, my bonus was a lot higher than most. :-)

[Becks]

Most of the month of August a few years back.

[LewisLegion]

90 days, twelve hour days, no breaks. For three months I worked and slept. That was pretty much it.

It was a job at a costume store. The guy should have been arrested. You had to be there every day from open to close and you were not allowed to sit down or take breaks. We were desperate for money at the time or I would have so been out of there. I worked from before Halloween through until New Years. On New Years day he laid everyone off but one person to get him through to the next busy season.

The only redeeming thing was he'd buy us food and pizza, even though we were expected to eat it standing up and working (pizza around extremely expensive costumes. And if you spilled anything on any costume you had to buy the costume...some of those things were thousands of dollars).

Never again.

[lordlundar]

10 8 hour day stretch. The company hated overtime pay, so it never went beyond that.

This was when I working a till (about a week after I started no less) so it was more than enough. The days just kind of blended together and I was contemplating keeping my sleeping bag in the staff room.

Then I got 4 days off and had to do it again. I hate Christmas in retail.:cry:

[Anriana]

19 days. My department has a morning and evening supervisor. One of the people who works evenings scheduled her vacation with the morning supervisor and it was never communicated to the evening supervisor, so I ended up covering her weekend shifts... two weekends in a row.

We're not very good friends now.

[Big-box-retail-blues]

When I was a welder, way back in the mid 90's, I worked three years and some odd months and only got two days off a year. Those were Christmas and Thanksgiving. I worked third shift and the hours were usually 7 or 8 p.m. until at least 10 a.m.

I gained 60 pounds, I've lost it all and then some, and rarely knew what month it was much less what day it was.

[saint]

21 ish days. Quitting job A and starting job B in same 2 weeks sucked. 6am-1pm I worked at my new job, then 3pm-11pm. Then would do it all over agian, for 2 weeks. Then 1 week at new job.
I so wanted to just quit w/o notice, but new job is cool people, they didn't want to burn bridges. But I have a job at old job should I ever need it :)

[Salted Grump]

6 Months. Part-time weekdays, full-time weekends. 5-Close on weekdays, and 8 Am- 5 Pm weekends. so, roughly 38 hours a week for 6 months straight.

Then I had to go back to school so I left. And Haven't been able to find a job since. :confused:

[DistantStar]

I just found out today I'm working eight days in a row -- from yesterday through next Monday. The only reason I'm not really angry is that we're very shorthanded due to a couple of vacations and somebody transferring to another department, and the fact that I know there's a few new people coming into the office. I looked at the schedule and couldn't figure out how to shift anybody around, really, so all I hope is that my boss really appreciates this. She's really good about handling our requests, and my only standing request is for not more than five days in a row unless it's unavoidable. Guess what, it's unavoidable. Darn me for my work ethic, I'll be there.

If this happens again, then I'll be angry. But we're very seasonal, and now is the time to vacate if you're going to. *sigh* What, am I going to tell the guy from Peru that he can't go see his family???

[LibraryLady]

Back in the late 60s and early 70s I worked in an insurance company. Our department was responsible for putting together the Group health portion of the annual statement. That meant that we worked 7 days a week from January 2 to Washington's Birthday (February 22).

By the third week or so, none of us could stand each other but, we did get paid OT for the weekends and that was very, very sweet.

[draftermatt]

I think my record is 6, sorry.

Back when I worked fast food I was only 14-15, so was limited to hours and days I could work legally.

The Car Parts warehouse was only opened Mon-Sat, same with the Truck Shop.

And my current place is closed weekends.

[SteeleDragon78]

worked doubles for 28 days strait at the hotel running room service. then at the assembly job i worked 7days a week from march to july because they couldn't hire a relief tech for me. 146 days after looking at my old pay spreadsheet. sadly when i was doing those they would bring me 4-5 pallets stacked 3-4 tiers high of gas grills and wanted 30-40 tractors built a week, not to mention the patio furniture and other rta crap. i lost a lot of weight that summer, too bad i gained it all back when i went to call centers :(

[Ringtail Z28]

My first three weeks at Wal-Mart were consecutive twelve hour workdays in the seasonal department from 4 pm to 4 am with no lunch breaks. It was my first "official" job so I was afraid to stand up to management. :(

[PepperElf]

i've lost count.

well in reality the longest one was 56 days. but that was back in 97.

in the past year.... Maybe 4 or 5 weeks in a single stretch, but it happened a few times
plus... it was with a 12 hour shift, so.... yeah 96-hour work weeks yay!

[morgana]

Seven weeks. September through mid-October. Four years running. But I did it to myself.

For several years I worked as a crafter in a booth at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. So for the seven weeks of the Ren Faire, I worked my regular 40-hour work week, got in the car Friday afternoon, drove three hours to the home of friends we stayed with, worked the two days of the Faire, got in the car Sunday evening, drove three hours home and went back to work on Monday.

I don't do that any more. I miss it, kinda, but . . . Exhausting.

[Bootlegger]

159 days at twelve hours on 6 hours off while on deployment for Operation Enduring Freedom while I was in the US Navy. With the exception of when we passed through the Suez Canal we did not see land for 159 days from the time we left left homeport.

[clod75]

14 days straight.... while 8 months pregnant, and at the end of it, I was maternity/parental leave. It was brutal.

[Sirionan]

22 days, 8.5 hours a day.

but that wasn't the worst ever exhaustion incident. There are two worse incidents I've had.

Grade 11 (yep, this is SCHOOL). Teacher loses massive science project (and admitted it--he knew i handed it in since he had his signature and mine on the list, but it was missing). I was up around 86 hours straight rewriting it (around the usual weekend crap). The day I handed it in, an English paper 'disappeared' (I'd had issues with that teacher for other things, I think she helped it poof). Another 70+ hours later, I was seeing some pretty weird stuff.. and the English teacher found out about the science project and marked the turned-in paper rather gently--got a B+ on a paper that I wouldn't have given a C.

Incident 2: Working the cooler for a meat plant, afternoon/evenings. Day guy goes on vacation. his replacement had only half a clue (normally he worked on the line in the other plant the company owned). To keep things running I worked 16 hour nights for a week, and if i hadn't managed to get the company to cover taxis, I'd've gotten maybe 3 hours a day of sleep in between (no car, and 5 hours commute both ways by public transit).

[Chromatix]

In my opinion, if your assignment goes missing *after* you've handed it in (and especially if it's the teacher's fault), you should automatically get the highest mark without any extra work.

But that's just my opinion.

[king4aday]

Today is my 13th day in a row...thank god its only a 10 hour shift...sundays are awesome :).

Most of my shifts are 13 hours...right now Im without another manager so Im the only one....I work open to close...every....day.... :banghead:

[Reyneth]

Nearly three months.

I was a summer secretary for my school district's middle school and started 2 days after school was over and finished there 2 weeks before it started when the regular secretary came back. Full-time, 7-3. The ac broke my first week.

At that same time, I had TWO part-time jobs at the mall. One was about 24 hours a week, the other 12-18.

I had my birthday off, and that was it. Although I think I worked at the school that day, just not at any other job that night. The only sun I saw was through my sunroof on my car. :cry:

[unclejampuff]

Sixty-seven days.

[GingerBiscuit]

one month.

Had two part time jobs and volunteered for a charity shop as well- on my days off from job #1 I was working at job#2, and on my one day off a week I was volunteering at the charity shop. Admittedly each job was only 5 hour shifts, but still.

[Sirionan]

In my opinion, if your assignment goes missing *after* you've handed it in (and especially if it's the teacher's fault), you should automatically get the highest mark without any extra work.

But that's just my opinion.

Personally, *I* agree. But the english teacher was an ass, and the science teacher was often impressed enough with my stuff that I'd get bonus marks (I got a 129 out of 100 in that course once). And the marks over 100% were worth fixing bad jobs on tests..