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.

[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

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