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who has worked 100 hours in a week ?

Jimmy_Pop

Jimmy_Pop

Turbo Monkey
Mar 1, 2002
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what were you doing?
have you ever worked those hours for weeks in a row?

the most ive done is about 75, mostly due to a 32 hour non-stop deadline. I was/am working for a commercial printing company at the time.
 
binary visions

binary visions

The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
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I've had one or two weeks where I've worked 70+, probably close to 80, never even approached 100, though... That's 14+ hours every single day :dead:
 
Westy

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Sleazattle
My best or worst was a 120 hour week, second only to the 100 hours I put in during a 5 day period. Both cases could be explained by getting machines running in an auto plant, failing to do so would shut down assembly plants costing the customer hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. I got overtime in those days.
 
mogulskr

mogulskr

Monkey
Aug 28, 2002
642
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NH
Never 100, the highest I had was 84 in a 5 day period. We were converting a data backbone over to fiber for a sub building shipyard.
 
binary visions

binary visions

The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
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I guess I was working 70+ hours a week every week for a few months there when I had both a full time job and an almost-full-time consulting job. That was an unpleasant time. You guys who hit 100 with any regularity are crazy.
 
narlus

narlus

Eastcoast Softcore
Staff member
Nov 7, 2001
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behind the viewfinder
my old college roommate routinely racks up 90+ hrs as a consultant for Accenture, and has crested the 100 mark many times...to me it's so not worth it.
 
Da Peach

Da Peach

Outwitted by a rodent
Jul 2, 2002
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North Van
I've hit 85 on a construction site. Overtime would have been nice...

Worked 31 days in a row once, 12 hours + per day. Again, overtime would have been nice.
 
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Binaural

Chimp
Feb 19, 2006
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Sydney Australia
I've hit 90-100 hrs quite a few times, mostly when overseas on commissioning jobs (I'm a software and electrical engineer). There are few things more soul-destroying than getting to work at 8am and leaving 10pm every night - you just turn into a zombie.
 
binary visions

binary visions

The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
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Da Peach said:
I've hit 85 on a construction site. Overtime would have been nice...
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You were working on a construction site and not getting overtime? Boy, they saw you coming a mile away :rofl:
 
Fool

Fool

The Thing cannot be described
Sep 10, 2001
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Topped out at 92 for a 6-day week. Many, many weeks in the high 80s. No overtime.
 
sanjuro

sanjuro

Tube Smuggler
Sep 13, 2004
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My first computer boss worked a 100 hours a week. In case you were wondering what kind of schedule he kept:

Mon-Fri: arrive at work at 6am, leave no earlier than 7pm (and this was before the internet, so no surfing); then after he drove home, dial in and continue working to no earlier than 1am.
Sat-Sun: just work 8 hours a day.
 
DirtyDog

DirtyDog

Gang probed by the Golden Banana
Aug 2, 2005
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I worked 55 straight 12 hour days while working at a mine in Alaska. That sucked.
 
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patineto

The RM Mad Scientist
Feb 19, 2002
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berkeley, ca
way to many times for far to Long....

just remenber life is a marathon and not a hundred meter dash race, personally today i'm paying for my arrogancy since my body can not take the heavy work loads anymore, at least in style.....
 
Tenchiro

Tenchiro

Attention K Mart Shoppers
Jul 19, 2002
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God no... Further more, I will never put myself in a position where that kind of nonsense was expected. I am not against the occasional bit of overtime in an emergency, but for two weeeks in a row they had better hire a contractor or something.
 
Slugman

Slugman

Frankenbike
Apr 29, 2004
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Miami, FL
I used to work the booze cruise and commuter boats in Boston Harbor. One time the Tall ships came to town (in the early/mid 90’s) I boarded the boat the day before they arrived and disembarked the day after they left.

My boat was a commuter boat from the south shore, we had to report at 5am to do the commuter route. After that we did harbor tours all day until the evening commute.

Then after that we'd go back into Boston and do cruises all night. We typically got back to the docks around midnight. I set up a hammock on the boat and slept there.

So for over a week I worked about 19 hours each day. Ahh to be young again…

This is the same job that during prom time we’d do ‘after prom’ parties. To do this we’d run our normal booze cruise runs, clean up and then around midnight we’d load up with teenagers. Typically we’d book 2 or 3 from Thursday night to Sunday… and that is basically what you worked. Showed up 5pm on Thursday, left about noon on Sunday… clocked in the entire time. This was in addition to working your normal week.

Damn I used to make a lot of money doing that…
 
teamkranzelbike

teamkranzelbike

Monkey
Apr 9, 2004
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Mount Carmel,PA
I used to work for a film production company doing set construction. Many a weeks were 100 hour weeks working several 30 hour days on occasion. The money was fantastic. Good part was you worked three of four months and had two or three off. The worst part was I always seem to find myself around the arctic circle in the february and the desert in august.
 
rigidhack

rigidhack

Turbo Monkey
Aug 16, 2004
1,206
1
In a Van(couver) down by the river
For the past year or so I have been completing my dissertation while holding an unrelated full time job. 8:30-5 at the corporate McJob, then 5:30-1 am at the library. I ride on the weekends, unless my wife is working and I'm watching the kids.

School is done now, and I am soon to move to a different job, so my hours, even if they are long, won't feel so bad at all.
 
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Wondermarmot

Chimp
Dec 11, 2004
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I've been putting in 13-14 hour days for the past 6 days, and that will continue for the next few days. I'd prefer not to add it up cause its kind of depressing. But soon I'll be finished with this 200 page paper that has consumed the last 2 years of my life.

Ahh....the life of a grad student.

I can't wait to work a steady 8-5, life will be good!
 
Frorider1

Frorider1

Monkey
Apr 28, 2006
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man dont be complaining about 13 or 14 hours days when all you do is study or crunch numbers, I used to put in 20 hour days running swimming and carrying zodiaks over sand dunes..
 
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Mike B.

Turbo Monkey
Oct 5, 2001
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State College, PA
I did 100-120 hours a week for about 6 weeks straight with the added bonus of a one hour commute on each end. I was busy bailing out a consultant that got in way over his head. He was working half the hours I was and getting overtime when I wasn't. I left the company shortly after.
 
Echo

Echo

crooked smile
Jul 10, 2002
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Slacking at work
Most I ever "officially" worked in one week was 74 hours back in like 1992.

I'm pretty sure I did more than that at some point when I was in the military, but that probably doesn't count :think:
 
Frorider1

Frorider1

Monkey
Apr 28, 2006
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Echo said:
Most I ever "officially" worked in one week was 74 hours back in like 1992.

I'm pretty sure I did more than that at some point when I was in the military, but that probably doesn't count :think:
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I say it counts, considering it is work after all.
 
Capt. Jack Sparrow

Capt. Jack Sparrow

Monkey
Jan 7, 2004
686
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D.C. area
The most was around 92 hours in one week last summer at the "9-5" fed gov job I still have. Brought a sleeping bag to work Sunday night in case I couldn't make it home before the new workday (Monday) started. The worst part was that for many of those hours, I actually didn't have any work to do at all. My superiors just wanted me to be "present." So there I sat in a windowless room, nothing to do, on my own free time, unpaid. The very worst part is this sh*t makes me unable to ride often.

I don't get paid overtime, or compensated in any way (i.e. comp time.)

Didn't have to keep up those hours, thank God... but mid-July and August might be just as bad. Ugh.
 
Qman

Qman

Monkey
Feb 7, 2005
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I don't keep track of hours now but I'm sure I've come close to 100 with my current gig a few times over the last several years. I charge double rates for overtime/expedidite jobs though and most of that time is just babysitting machines while they do the work.

College job was tourism in Alaska though. I easily hit 90-100+ hours driving buses and working as a 1st Mate/Engineer on a tour boat.
Brutal. It was a rough on the immune system but I got to see some amazing territory and wildlife that many people only see in captivity.
 
noname

noname

Monkey
Feb 19, 2006
544
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outer limits
are we talking real or billable hours...........?:)
I actually did it for about two and a half years while we were trying to get things going at the shops new location. I would be up at six, dressed and out the door about 15-20 min.s later, straight to work. Be at the shop till about 445, leave to head to the resturaunt that I managed where I would remain till about 1am. I was eating all three meals at work standing up, and I can tell you exactly what breakfast and lunch fastfood style for near on three years will do to you:) .
It was not uncommon for the closing waitress to find me asleep standing at the register after closing when I should of been doing the #'s, or occasionally passed out in the freezer with the door open when I was supposed to be doing inventory. I eventually reached a point were I just couldn't function properly mentally and had to quit. Now it takes a labor of hurculian proportions to extrcate me from my bed before 7am, and you can believe ma tail is home from work no later than 7pm.:oink:
 
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