Longest day working

[Gothgar]

What is the longest day that you have performed physical labor.

Just curious if a majority of the people here have only done desk jobs or the like.

 

[Safeway]

8+/8+.

The outside work was sodding the grass, though.
The inside work was coding up some interwebs.

14+ inside at the firm. :Q

 

[halik]

~8-10 hours working on my car

14+ working on wall street

 

[BoomerD]

For most of my working career as a heavy equipment and crane operator, 10 hour days were standard, with 12-16 hours being common.

The single longest shift I ever put in on a construction job was 32 hours.

The only office job I've ever held was as a business agent for my union, and 10-12 hour days were standard.

 

[knawlejj]

18 hour shift manually scraping a layer of paint + 2 coats of primer off of hydraulic cylinders that were painted a wrong color of green for John Deere. 12 Hour shifts were normal for me, for some reason I loved it. Wish I could have done it again this summer between semesters =/

 

[Engineer]

Longest day outside - 12 hours.

Not sure about "physical labor" inside (my job isn't physical). I guess it would be close to 12 hours putting down hardwood floors last year.

Actual longest day at work was 21 hours.

 

[mcveigh]

14hours oustside

20 hours inside (Combat cargo platoon getting ready to deploy the next day)

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

18 hours outside (zoo)
10-11 hours inside (regular office)

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
For most of my working career as a heavy equipment and crane operator, 10 hour days were standard, with 12-16 hours being common.

The single longest shift I ever put in on a construction job was 32 hours.

The only office job I've ever held was as a business agent for my union, and 10-12 hour days were standard.

/bowdown

You sir are a man!

My longest shift was 19 hours on a construction site

Longest day inside was around 24-28 doing system restores at a big company I was a tech for over the weekend.

The blue collar work was about 30000 times harder.

 

[RapidSnail]

About 12 hours of landscaping with poison ivy, digging holes and removing rocks, cutting down small trees, and such. Ivy rashes all over my body for weeks (shorts and t-shirt).

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Gothgar
/bowdown

You sir are a man!

My longest shift was 19 hours on a construction site

Longest day inside was around 24-28 doing system restores at a big company I was a tech for over the weekend.

The blue collar work was about 30000 times harder.

Hard to turn down the money...8 hours straight time, ($35/hr) 2 hours time & a half, 22 hours doubletime.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Gothgar
/bowdown

You sir are a man!

My longest shift was 19 hours on a construction site

Longest day inside was around 24-28 doing system restores at a big company I was a tech for over the weekend.

The blue collar work was about 30000 times harder.

Hard to turn down the money...8 hours straight time, ($35/hr) 2 hours time & a half, 22 hours doubletime.

*type type type*

$1,907.50?

Did I do that right?

er.... that's a no

$1,925?

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

*type type type*

$1,907.50?

Did I do that right?

er.... that's a no

$1,925?

Yep.
8

2*1.5=3
22*2=44
55*35=$1925

Not bad for a day's pay.

I worked the shut-down at the bay area refineries a lot too.

7-12's
M-F = 8 @ regular, 2@ 1.5, 2@ 2x
Sat. = 8 @ 1.5, 4 @ 2x
Sunday 12 @ double.

40 @ regular
18 @ 1.5
26 @ 2x
= 119 hours * $35 = $4165/week

About 6 months of that is all I could stand at a time...then take a couple of weeks off and back to working 5-10's for a while.

 

[DainBramaged]

When I was in the carpenters union, I regularly did 12-14 hour days. That could be either inside or outside.

 

[coldmeat]

12 hours filling/emptying wheelbarrows of mulch and soil.

 

[will889]

Outside 21 hour day (more than once) a time ago in a land/sea far away. Inside maybe 16 hours.

 

[datalink7]

~40 hours? Don't remember exactly.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: will889
Outside 21 hour day (more than once) a time ago in a land/sea far away. Inside maybe 16 hours.

The two years I spent in Uncle Sam's Indochina playground often had long days...sometimes several days with no sleep time.

I don't really count that as work...killing Vietnamese was more of a hobby than a job.

 

[TallBill]

I worked 36 hours once, flying with detainees on a c17. Weather kept us from landing at our destination, then we landed at a base where daytime flights were unsafe. To be fair, we really didn't do a whole lot other than watch over the detainees, but the aircraft was powered down all day and it was hot as balls. I got in maybe 2 hours of sleep in the early morning on a rotation but woke up drenched in sweat.

 

[imported_Imp]

8+ and 8+. The only issue is that I wasn't paid for the 8+ hours outside, because it was part of my college curriculumn for learning surveying.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Longest day outside - 12 hours.

Not sure about "physical labor" inside (my job isn't physical). I guess it would be close to 12 hours putting down hardwood floors last year.

Actual longest day at work was 21 hours.

Heh, I work in engineering also and my company just put in a little warning that asks 'are you sure?' when you log over 16 hours in one day in our time tracking program.

 

[skyking]

You need to adjust the poll a bit.
The most recent shift was an unplanned 16 hour on I-5 operating an excavator in a closure. That one was tough, it was a night shift that started at 7PM and I was having a heck of a time at 11AM. I did not make it home, fell asleep for an hour or so in a rest area.
longest run without a day off = 100 days. Rotating shifts, 2 weeks day, 2 weeks swing, 2 weeks graveyard.

 

[will889]

Originally posted by: skyking
You need to adjust the poll a bit.
The most recent shift was an unplanned 16 hour on I-5 operating an excavator in a closure. That one was tough, it was a night shift that started at 7PM and I was having a heck of a time at 11AM. I did not make it home, fell asleep for an hour or so in a rest area.
longest run without a day off = 100 days. Rotating shifts, 2 weeks day, 2 weeks swing, 2 weeks graveyard.

That's tough dude. Props to working hard.

 

[nageov3t]

physical labor? 12 hours, installing raised floor in a data center (it was just 2 of us doing the whole thing)... I couldn't even move the next day. pulled a no-show at work because I couldn't bring myself to walk to the other side of my bedroom to get my cellphone.

longest day ever was a 36 hour NOC shift... there was a blizzard and the state gov declared a state of emergency so no one could get to the data center, so I was stuck there (by myself, because my douchebag coworker was like F this and just walked home, leaving me there since I lived too far away for it to be an option for me)

 

[BlackTigers]

I put in an 19hr shift, three times, at Wendy's. 6AM to 1AM. That shit was so horriddd.

Longest outside? 11:30AM to 9:30PM putting the engine in my car. 90 degree heat, three gallons of water, not fun.