What's the most number of hours you've worked in a week

[Paratus]

I'm talking for a job now not necessarily in college.


I was lead for my group for mission 13A / STS117 back in 2007. Thanks to the mission mostly being my hardware and some real-life "Mark Watney" crap that went on I pulled about 97 hours the first week.

How about you guys?

 

[Gooberlx2]

90-100 hours or so when we were scrambling to get the last habitats setup and populated with animals to get a large aquarium renovation finished before the opening deadline. I basically slept at work that whole week. The OT was pretty bitchin' though.

 

[KMFJD]

When we where building an addition i hit over 110 hours for a couple of weeks

 

[Red Squirrel]

If I had to guess, 84. That would be 7 12h shifts. At one point we were super short staffed and I remember having to do lot of OT during the summer since everyone was on vacation. Pretty much everybody was doing OT to cover whoever was on vacation that given week. Did that for 4 weeks in a row, though I worked some 8h shifts too, so it was not quite 84 per week. Got a few days off in between as well. That was a freaking nice pay cheque though. I had cleared like 3 grand for 2 pays.

 

[Eli]

Have been working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for the last 4 years.

It's one of the perks of owning a small business, getting to choose which 24/7 you work.

Of course, it helps that most of the time it doesn't really seem like work. And I can nef without fear of repercussions.

 

[Paratus]

90-100 hours or so when we were scrambling to get the last habitats setup and populated with animals to get a large aquarium renovation finished before the opening deadline. I basically slept at work that whole week. The OT was pretty bitchin' though.

OT was pretty nice for me too.

Have been working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for the last 4 years.

It's one of the perks of owning a small business, getting to choose which 24/7 you work.

Of course, it helps that most of the time it doesn't really seem like work. And I can nef without fear of repercussions.

hang in there! Hope business is profitable!

 

[Franz316]

52

 

[IronWing]

112 hours/week. My employer has a hard limit at 16 hours per day.

 

[DrPizza]

Somewhere in the same range, OP. 3 or 4 days of the week, I had worked 8am to midnight. The owner didn't realize and only paid me for 4 hours on each of those days (owner was out of town for the week; it was later fixed). I worked all 7 days.

 

[werepossum]

99.98 my first engineering job. Was mighty ticked when I got my paycheck - if I'd have known I was that close, I'd have hung around another five minutes. Paid more in taxes than my usual salary before taxes. That same job, I saw electricians with around 120 hours. At that point, since the time card goes a bit deeper with each punch-in, you have to use needle nose pliers to clock in or out. (Sadly, mine did not require them, making me a light weight.)

I've also seen three cables running the same route because those electricians miscounted twice how many conductors they needed. Go a week sleeping ten minutes every four hours and you, um, aren't at your best. So if you ever see a Lewallyn Engineering carpet handling machine with three multiconductor cables running side by side, now you know.

 

[Strk]

90 between two jobs, 77 at just one (current job)

 

[sdifox]

80. Did two month stretch of that.

 

[radhak]

Way back in the mists of time, 8 months in my second job as a programmer, we had to replace an existing payroll system with a new one for a very large corporation. Looking back, I know the project management on that was abysmal, but I knew nothing of that then - just that we had to put the new system in place and stress test it in one shot, during a long weekend.

The days leading up to this were themselves 18 hours long, but that Tuesday, a dozen of us stayed back at work, and did not go home till the next Monday. We slept intermittently, heads on keyboards. I remember one time my boss was going over some logic with me, and I was nodding off while he talked. He paused, looked at me, and said - "How about you go and wash your face and come back. We really need to complete this one now." That week I logged in 150 hours D:, and the OT was a pittance.

The upgrade went off okay, mostly, but with not much reward for us. In fact, a senior VP called us in a week later and said that a glitch had been identified and wanted to find a scapegoat for it, but we were too pissed to give him one. My mom says I lost 10 pounds that week.

I was in that nasty job for a couple of years, where long days were a regular thing, but mostly because I met my wife there and wanted to close that deal before quitting . (She was in a better department, and remembers that place fondly...)

 

[purbeast0]

on a salary job getting paid for - 48, but we got compensated. only ever worked more than 40 hours like 3 times my entire career and all 3 times was compensated for it. i'd never work more than 40 hours and not get compensated for it, unless it was my own company.

now though i'm working 20-30 hours "for free" for a startup i'm a cofounder on. we're almost finished with our product and ready for public beta though, so i hope it's all going to be worth it.

 

[kranky]

Had a 3-week stretch where I worked 12 hours/day, 7 days a week. Was doing PCB layout design to meet a deadline. It was me and another guy, alternating shifts on the computer. That's 84 hours a week.

What I learned from it was how to recognize when I was so tired my brain wasn't making good decisions. I still remember near the end of that stretch looking at a menu on the screen and having to think very hard whether the Delete command affected only the symbol I had selected, or the entire file - a command I had used a thousand times without a problem. And at that point it was as though I had no understanding of what it did.

 

[edro]

Not more than 50.

 

[SearchMaster]

Probably ~80 hours/7 days/week for about 2 months straight. I worked for a small business that did accounting software and it was our first tax season and I was the only one handling it. Outside of that, we were launching a GPS service back in the 90s when GPS was first becoming available widespread, and I got called for jury duty that week. So I would do jury duty from 9am until 5pm, and head to the office to work until 1 or 2am. It didn't help that the court case was about the most boring damn testimony you'll ever hear (civil, not criminal) and the entire jury fell asleep at some point every day.

 

[BxgJ]

112/week (16/day), that's the most we can work. It's typically only after hurricanes though. I think I worked like that for 2 months after Ike came through. Couldn't tell you what day of the week it was by the end, not that it mattered...

 

[Kaido]

Last longest week I can remember was around 95 hours, big Exchange migration over a holiday weekend. I think we worked for 48 hours straight & then did a few 16-hour days, then slept all weekend. It was horrible

 

[Harrod]

I did 78 once, after looking at this thread it seems it was nothing to brag about though. The taxes on that check made me realize it wasn't worth it.

 

[IEC]

90+ working nights in a command center.

I work a flat 40 now.

 

[ra1nman]

82 working 6 days a week for a month. I'd still take off on Sundays for family time.

 

[Exterous]

College was my busiest. Easily spent 112 hours a week at school during final week (probably more). Some fellow students didn't even bother going home for that week our senior year. They had showers and cots in our building. Probably spent 80-100 hours a week between classes and my part time job for the better part of two years. Going down to 80 hours a week at two full time jobs was a nice relief.

Now I rarely work over 40 and have a much better work/life balance

 

[herm0016]

In a week? 3, 4, 5 days straight on site sleeping in between working. Oil industry. I have done 18 hr days for 2 weeks straight many times as well.

 

[Fritzo]

I've worked 60 and 80 hour weeks back to back before When I was in catering and in manufacturing. I'm in IT now and it usually stays around 40-50.