Longest number of consecutive days you ever worked??

[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.

[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]

hmmmm

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....

[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.