Longest number of consecutive days you ever worked??

[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! 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.

[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.