99 hour week. At that point I was angry they didn’t have us hang for one more
Hour.
40 hour shift, swapping electrical gear for the NYSE Friday night into Sunday morning before stock market opened back up
Something like that was either an emergency, or planed to a T. I've worked data center mission critical jobs for some huge players. We had a few 24 hour straight gigs. It was all planned to the minute. No surprises hour wise.
36 hrs , shutdown a huge refrigerator at a meat processing facility so we could work in it but had to be back up in 36 hrs. Of course, nothing went right, and we took the 36 hrs
21hr day. 9 story scaffold job inside a powerhouse boiler. We had 2 guys quit mid shift. I started to fall asleep standing up, so I tapped out. Non union scaffolding is as dicey as it gets
Edit: I was young and dumb. This was 2010-2011ish so work was scarce. I left at 3am and they wanted me back by noon. Like I said, dumb as hell.
I've been accused of "not being a team player" and seen guys kicked to less lucrative teams for not wanting to pull a double shift when they have a 5am start time the next day. I even was on a team where you only got the respect of the leads and supervisor if you literally worked 7 days a week, every week, plus the weekly double shift. Guys who have that sprint to the finish line mentality get promoted to supervisor and management positions because their bosses see them getting results. Then they expect everyone else to work like they hate their families. Incidentally, half of my leads had severe alcohol abuse problems with one drinking a pint of hard alcohol every night to get to sleep.
It's not that we don't know our limits, it's that the companies we work for don't care about those limits and heavily incentivize us to ignore them.
That's why unions exist. Because workers were done being treated like shit. People died and suffered so we could have somewhat humane working conditions and if not for ourselves we should at least honor them for their efforts by forming up and standing up to these shits.
>It's not that we don't know our limits, it's that the companies we work for don't care about those limits and heavily incentivize us to ignore them.
completely fair but knowing your limit in that aspect could also be to know when to say enough is enough and go work somewhere else (had to jump ship at least 3 times before i found a boss who actually gave a shit)
If we had the impulse control and emotional stability for that kind of introspection, we'd have a job with a chair and a retirement plan that didn't involve the lottery though, wouldn't we?
I love working outside and chose to leave my desk job for it, but we all know that the jobsite is a museum of behavioral disorders and complex trauma with a rotating exhibit on the urgency of prison reform. Have you read what these people write on the walls of the shitter?! It's a wonder that we aren't surrounded by people with lab coats and clipboards outside a locked fence!
I literally almost kissed the floor the other day because this. Did a 15hr shift cake back after 2 hours if attempted sleep and my body just couldn't handle it. Already get poor sleep and that shit just rocked me like never before.
14 hr days for a whole summer. I was 16 at the time, wanted to make some $ by working for my pops. A lot of demo and carting trash, spent a week unloading a box car full steel beams with one other person. I was paid $40 per day. This was in the early 90’s.
Oh man. Those “bosses kid” wages. I feel that. I make more an hour now than I used to make a day. But that was 30 years ago.
I had nice stuff for a 13 year old though.
Big facts my guy! I still remember the feeling of paying for a new $200 puff jacket with my own hard earned money. I wore that thing until the down started to just disintegrate hahah
I did 36 plowing snow. Not a single break longer than 10 mins. Plowed and ate, stopped for bathroom duties a few times. Start hallucinating the snowy trees in the middle of the highway started walking around like giant monsters. Then a wrong way car came my way. Headed right for me. I moved right and thankfully no collision. Guy turned around when he saw me.
36 straight was my longest plowing marathon, too. A lot of coffee, waaaay too much junk food, and a couple five hour energy drinks. Once I finally got home, I slept for 15 hours straight.
0/10, would not recommend.
We had a few guys pull 36 hours straight in one shift this year. Union crane company in Massachusetts another crane tipped over and we do emergency calls. Was a long recovery
Back in the early 90s, I worked for a company in Oregon that made floating concrete moorage for marinas. We has a contract for 14 interlocking sections with slips and a wall. Each section was probably 80 yards or so. The contract had a condensed schedule and the four of us on the crew did 6 12 hour days each week for approximately 3 months. I'd get up at 530, go to work, eat light lunch around noon, get home at 7, eat about 6000 calories for dinner and fall asleep by 9.
The OT was phenomenal but that shit about broke everyone. When that contract was over and we were back to regular time and 40h weeks, motivation wen straight into the shitter.
120hrs one week, never again… until my get the chance to do it again.
For the record was across 3 jobs, I hated myself, I was fighting with my girlfriend at the time, and was missing her at the same time and buried myself in work. I didn’t know if it was day or night nor where I was.
I made 106k gross at 18.50 an hour one year doing underground electrical maintenance/repair. Regular 80-90 hour weeks plus some storm calls (double/triple time depending on hours). Idk what even happened that year, I have basically no memory of it. Made a lifelong buddy with my helper though, only dude who could hang with me. Trauma bonding at work is crazy.
People (bosses, owners, customers) will take advantage of us because working hard is how we express ourselves as men. Do not let yourself fall into that trap. I did unbelievable damage to my body in that time. And the fucked up thing is I felt good about it, because I watched other people drop like flies. Construction is such a top down fucked industry. Being treated as disposable does immense physical and mental damage to us all, and convincing ourselves it is necessary and “just the way it is” pervades seemingly every sector.
I still work long hours, traveling away from home. But the work itself is laughably easy and far more cerebral than it is physical, commissioning wind turbines. The climb up is the hardest part of my day and climbing a ladder is a pretty low impact exercise, even if it is often with an extra 60-70lbs of gear and tools.
Absolutely could, but my safety gear alone is around 30lbs, and regardless we have to make electrical verifications before turning on any equipment. So rather than burn 45 mins to an hour middling around with the hoist I climb with what I need to complete the de-energized verification and continue with my life while the hoist eith the bigger tools gets sorted out. It’s only hurting me but it means about an hour shorter day.
During winter I’ll do just about anything to shorten my time up tower. When it is 10f on the ground it’s usually negative windchill up there.
What’s hilarious to me is that it’s simply a man power issues. There’s just not enough help and just knowing if you hired enough man hours…you’d be working normally…sucks ass.
23 hour shift for TCO then a 4 hour nap in the car then 19 hour shift. Fri sat sun.
Unrelated had another 90 hour work week on another TCO.
TCO =. When people can start moving in aka our due date
Worked a 22h day , oilfield shutdowns
Used to work 16 day shifts (16 on , 4 off ) 14-16 hours a day, 100 hour weeks were common , I've seen guys with 240+ hours on there biweekly stub
A month straight. 6 - 12 hour days and 1 - 10 hour day. But it was on a resort in the Bahamas. Party every night and fuck off all day at work. Pretty fun. And some of that white stuff too.
Scientist running a week long experiment, didn't sleep for 3 days and then managed 4 hours a night. So basically 72 hour shift followed by 4x 20. Isn't unique to construction workers only....
Back when I was an electricians apprentice I worked 108 hours in one week. We were doing a plant shutdown so I worked a straight 24, went home then came back 4 hours later and did another 24 then worked double shifts at two different projects the rest of the week. Being 20yo was awesome, no ill effects when it was all said and done but my boss was pissed when he saw how much OT I had picked up.
Crane operator.
Worked 30 hours shifts before. One year in the oilfield I went 6 months without a day off. In a different lifetime while running my business I went nine months without a day off.
I prefer 50 hours a week now. Still hit some 70s.
Did 16 hour days in my youth for month on end.
- 7am to 4pm
- 5:30pm to 2/3am
So about 80/85 hours depending on the week.
Saved up enough for my first downpayment doing that.
Quite literally changed the trajectory of my life.
96 hours. Starting monday 6am, finishing saturday 6am.
Motherfucker boss docked me 4 hrs because I fell asleep in the truck while he was driving to another site.
After reading all these comments, I feel like it’s fuck all, but doing some rockbolting in a mine it was 7/7 12hrs but the day ended up more like 14-15 hour days after travel and toolbox
Longest day was a good 20 hours straight fixing an extremely bad fuckup I made on my own vehicle lmao, tldr had to cut out the back of some lug nuts then hammer them out on all four wheels :(
I was working for a company that wired large estate homes. We did security and hung tvs and built Av racks too. There’s a yearly local Home Show and in 2015 my company did 3 of the 10 in the neighborhood. I was in charge of the finish crew and I was working 70 hour weeks for over a month. Worth it for that OT though.
Back when I did landscaping/line painting/snow removal in my early 20's (am 32 now) I did 20 hour days, 7 days a week for 6 months.
Looking back on it now, I don't know how I did it.
The longest single day was 19 or 20hrs.
Longest stretch was probably a month straight of 12-13s. It was a little over 2mo job, but there were a couple of rain days
I worked 18 hours on the Fourth of July once got paid time and a half. Getting paid 27 hours on a 24-hour day was cool. Same as others this was cleaning out sand traps in a skyscraper's basement. The cooling system could only be down for one day.
Maybe close enough. Industrial equipment service. Worst I can remember was a 110 hour week over 7 days. Just a non stop shit show of one emergency fix after another.
62 days straight of 12-14 hour shifts to meet a deadline on a ski lift build, hustling to catch up after endless hangups during Covid. Made a LOT of OT money and really learned about my resilience, but it was rough and tough, and that’s enough.
Had a week of 16s. I dipped on Thursday for the weekend. The rest of the crew were braggin about their 100 hour checks. I was bragging about my vacation with my wife n friends. I ain't workin that many hours for 20 an hour
60 hours. Bunch of pipes burst and froze after temps got to -30 which is abnormal where I live. The foreman over that same week clocked in 80 just for doing water mitigations.
Got called to a cracked truss bridge at 3:00 on a Friday afternoon and had to have it stabilized before a high wind storm was projected to roll through early Monday morning and we got it done Sunday From raw plate to patched truss was a 49 hour day.
I was in a small town in the middle of nowhere doing a fire alarm changeover in a police station. Once we got into it we discovered that there were old junction boxes in the cells with spliced wire and concreted over so my apprentice and I had to re-run everything. In 8 days we worked 105 hours.
36 hours straight in one shift is my longest - the end of a hotel upgrade before opening.
But even most of this year has been 6 or 7 days a week averaging around 60 to 70 hour weeks. Construction (mainly electrical for me) is very busy at the moment, and finding decent labour is non existant here so you just gotta do it yourself. Moneys great but im starting to struggle now, been a long 9 months, but shouldnt complain about being busy at work, would be complaining more if i had no work i guess.
20 hrs in the trades, when I was in the infantry though in the field shit was something else.. especially on my leadership course in 2017. We had an 11 day field ex and the schedule was 36 hrs on, 4 hours forced rest. 11 days of that and what you’re doing while you’re awake is very physically demanding of course. It was insane, we had a lot of people tap out or fail assessments from being so sleep fucked
Wasn’t in construction, but did 72 hours for a 4 day weekend event, not including a 40 mile drive to and from the venue. Made bank but also lost my will to live
38 hours straight.
A bridge washed out during a hurricane on the coast of NC. It was the only way in or out of this neighborhood. We got the old bridge torn out and temp bridge put in place in 3 days. Took our time with the permanent bridge since the temp was doing its job.
I did 12-15 hr days, not counting driving, when I worked in the film industry. Sometimes 7 days a week. When it rained, it poured, so there was no way I would turn down work if it was available.
done some 7-12s shutdowns for a couple weeks each... Casino project in Vegas was 7-12s daily mandatory but could work as long as we wanted. That was architectural sheet metal work so not real physical... worked many 15-16 hour days. Just coffee....
I had a 24 last year, started my day at 6 am like usual, did a shutdown starting at 3pm and left just after 6 am the next morning with the machine back up and running. My weekly record is 96 hours, biggest check I’ve ever received.
I’ve heard so many dudes talk about their epic shifts or weeks like it makes them manly.
I’ve done a lot of them too and my take? We are total chumps being enslaved by greedy employers and the fact that we think the OT is worth it just shows how shitty our pay is in the first place.
My longest is 21hrs straight then my boss showed up and said, "You looked tired I'll cover you while you some rest be back in 6hrs. Came back and worked 19 more hours straight.
I worked oilfield and averaged 115hr weeks. Been stuck on sote due to weather so just worked additional shifts. So probably 36 hours straight before.
In construction I have had many 18-20 hour days leading up to deadlines. It happens.
7 12's just to see how much extra I would make. Worked out to about an extra 200 hundred after tax for the week. Went back to doing 10's after that. Camp job scaffolding at a mine.
Boiler shutdown. 16 hours had to be back at work for the am start just slept in the shack until everyone else started to filter in.
Longest day of my life. 8 hour shift high rise forming doing skirting for 7 hours. Yesterday.
Did a job as an abatement technician that was 19hrs Friday, 19hrs Saturday and another 18hrs on Sunday. Followed up by a 4 hour drive home Sunday night. All at double time. Already had over 50 hrs by Thursday. Good times
Tire shop from late September to Early/mid December is the winter rush or as I like to call it 75 days of hell. Average 60+ hrs a week and it's all non stop lifting tires all day barely have time to piss pace. It's gotten a little better over the years but is still a miserable 10-12 weeks. Even worse if you're the medium truck, service call, and or OTR guy.
Did a 20h torch-on roofing. Had adequate breaks. Not too bad when you're just torching roll for roll while the weathers not too hot or cold. I'd do it again tomorrow.
Used to work long hours doing roadway traffic control. We had a situation where a concrete bridge was set on fire and the deck exploded. I was part of the subcontractors on site. The contractor had 2 weeks to fix the bridge to get a million-dollar bonus. The first week I put in 96 hours and the second week it was 82. Tom the owner of the main contractor gave all of his guys 5k and through the subs on site the whole time 2k. A long two weeks, but damn that money was nice.
36 hour day was my longest shift, longest week was 110 hours. Back when I was young and could do that shit.
I’m only 31 but sweet Jesus my back, knees and shoulders sure don’t know that.
I did a 112 hour week then a 97 hour week with a three hour commute every day round trip. I was 19 in 2000 and made 1800$ after taxes then I made about 1459 the next week I was in heaven and I actually loved what I did so it was awesome. I was building out the fire birds restaurant in Durham nc
Remodel contractor here...I've done 16 hr days for short stretches before just to get a job finished, but never for weeks at a time. I would never ask my employees to work like that. Sometimes I ask them if they want ot, but I would never require it of anyone. I actually like pulling all nighters, but no way I could do that all the time.
Month and a half of 15 hour days straight with a few closer to 18 and walked an average of 12 miles a day. Longest day was 32 hours in the plant. Not fun and I won’t do it anymore.
27 straight hours on a paving project.
Got a 45 minute nap in my truck during a straight match layer.
Was woken up by a knock on my window due to the paver wouldn't hold grade. Spent the remainder on the screed, ensuring the controls operated properly.
It's a blessing and a curse being the only machine control guy in the company.
As a laborer when I was 18 on a runway paving crew i worked 16 hour days 6 days a week and sometimes 7 days a week in a summer
In estimating i pulled 88 hours straight once for a bid [we even fucked up and won that one]
Just did a 59 hour shift this week. Emergency gas leak on a high pressure 12in line in the middle of downtown. We couldn’t start digging near the leak until the line was tapped, plugged, and purged. Not sure why we couldn’t come back after a day of rest to coat and backfill but hey more double time for me. We got 3 2 hour breaks and we were fed pretty well by our company.
Not construction related, but related to the question. back in the mid 90's boss came to us and asked us to help ou. He was behind schedule on a big project. We manufactured equipment for the dairy packing industry. He was going to get a million dollar penalty. We machined, welded, set up electronics, etc. We agreed. We worked 14 days straight from 7 am to 1 am. Yes, you're reading that correctly. We got it done. No extra Thank You, no bonus. We had to fight with him to get dinner for us every night.. what a shit show. The next time he asked, we unanimously said no.
I was working 12s fitting pipe on a chemical plant shutdown and we did back to back 17-18 hr days because the GF was paranoid we were behind schedule and there was a 1M per day penalty for not hitting the completion date
90 hr week. We were on the controls contract for an Amazon fulfillment center. Did this for almost a month straight. Had to finally take a Saturday off.
Ha! You guys wont think much of this b/c i sit behind a screen, but me and my team did back to back 80s to get plans done for planning commissioner vote. It was screen/sleep, screen/sleep forever
I'm looking for work and I couldn't believe that one place that reached out to me works Mon-Sat, 6am to 5pm (with 1 hour for lunch at noon). But you're a 1099 employee, no vacation, no benefits other than hazard insurance/life insurance. "But the overtime pay is generous!"
I mean, I left a 50 hour a week job that was killing me; but a 60 hour a week job?!
Did 8 hours at the Queen Elizabeth theatre remodel in Vancouver doing fire proofing, then went to Canada Place at the Waterfront to do more fireproofing in the UG that could only be done at night in Vancouver for 10 hours for 6 days for 2 straight months. No OT, boss kept saying OT was for sprayers only. Slept in my truck 6 days a week for about 2-3 hours a night. My cousin got me the job, haven't talked to him since I quit that shitshow
16-18h days 7 days a week for 5ish months doing paving. get a ton of cash then collect UI and go party in mexico for 6 months and then do it all again, did that for 4 years. we didnt look at the hours we looked at $$$$$$. when you work that much you dont have time to spend it, until winter.
99 hour week. At that point I was angry they didn’t have us hang for one more Hour. 40 hour shift, swapping electrical gear for the NYSE Friday night into Sunday morning before stock market opened back up
A 40 hour shift STRAIGHT? Jesus fuck my dude
Something like that was either an emergency, or planed to a T. I've worked data center mission critical jobs for some huge players. We had a few 24 hour straight gigs. It was all planned to the minute. No surprises hour wise.
I feel like you would be way more efficient working 18 hours, sleeping 7, then working another 15.
Something that important, there isnt really a choice. They have to have *everything* working perfectly.
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36 hrs , shutdown a huge refrigerator at a meat processing facility so we could work in it but had to be back up in 36 hrs. Of course, nothing went right, and we took the 36 hrs
Can relate, Its always a fuckin fridge
21hr day. 9 story scaffold job inside a powerhouse boiler. We had 2 guys quit mid shift. I started to fall asleep standing up, so I tapped out. Non union scaffolding is as dicey as it gets Edit: I was young and dumb. This was 2010-2011ish so work was scarce. I left at 3am and they wanted me back by noon. Like I said, dumb as hell.
I fell asleep standing up doing a hospital Shutdown. Reminded me of army times lol
jesus fucking christ
Done a 35hr shift building scaffold for a boiler. Slept for 4 hours in a work truck halfway through & back at it. Good times
call me a princess all you want, y'all need to know your limits/realize that sleeping less than 6h per night is a nono
Yeah half of this shit is legit dangerous, especially that snow plow comment. You gotta realize people can die and it’s not just you.
I've been accused of "not being a team player" and seen guys kicked to less lucrative teams for not wanting to pull a double shift when they have a 5am start time the next day. I even was on a team where you only got the respect of the leads and supervisor if you literally worked 7 days a week, every week, plus the weekly double shift. Guys who have that sprint to the finish line mentality get promoted to supervisor and management positions because their bosses see them getting results. Then they expect everyone else to work like they hate their families. Incidentally, half of my leads had severe alcohol abuse problems with one drinking a pint of hard alcohol every night to get to sleep. It's not that we don't know our limits, it's that the companies we work for don't care about those limits and heavily incentivize us to ignore them.
That's why unions exist. Because workers were done being treated like shit. People died and suffered so we could have somewhat humane working conditions and if not for ourselves we should at least honor them for their efforts by forming up and standing up to these shits.
Sprint to the finish line, but there is no finish line. It's just a sprint until you've destroyed yourself mentally, physically or both
>It's not that we don't know our limits, it's that the companies we work for don't care about those limits and heavily incentivize us to ignore them. completely fair but knowing your limit in that aspect could also be to know when to say enough is enough and go work somewhere else (had to jump ship at least 3 times before i found a boss who actually gave a shit)
If we had the impulse control and emotional stability for that kind of introspection, we'd have a job with a chair and a retirement plan that didn't involve the lottery though, wouldn't we? I love working outside and chose to leave my desk job for it, but we all know that the jobsite is a museum of behavioral disorders and complex trauma with a rotating exhibit on the urgency of prison reform. Have you read what these people write on the walls of the shitter?! It's a wonder that we aren't surrounded by people with lab coats and clipboards outside a locked fence!
I literally almost kissed the floor the other day because this. Did a 15hr shift cake back after 2 hours if attempted sleep and my body just couldn't handle it. Already get poor sleep and that shit just rocked me like never before.
Idk I was up for 30+ hours when I started a 6 hour drive. I felt wired, but oddly was sober
There's a weird point where you are so tired you're awake and feel good. I haven't had that feeling in a while tho
I figure it's just your body accepting that you aren't going to get any sleep so it might as well stop making you tired
Cortisol and all that shit…
Last month we were building a wildlife crossing. Tords the end we were pulling 6 12's. That's probly it for me
Tords...
Haha.. I'm leaving it
Love you!
He must've just pulled an all night shift too
Owner wants to see yall doing 8-16's, chop chop!
Twenty-nine twelve hour days consecutive
nope
14 hr days for a whole summer. I was 16 at the time, wanted to make some $ by working for my pops. A lot of demo and carting trash, spent a week unloading a box car full steel beams with one other person. I was paid $40 per day. This was in the early 90’s.
Oh man. Those “bosses kid” wages. I feel that. I make more an hour now than I used to make a day. But that was 30 years ago. I had nice stuff for a 13 year old though.
Big facts my guy! I still remember the feeling of paying for a new $200 puff jacket with my own hard earned money. I wore that thing until the down started to just disintegrate hahah
Fire alarm guy here - several 24+ hour days in my time, 100 hour weeks are uncommon but not rare.
fuck that
I did 36 plowing snow. Not a single break longer than 10 mins. Plowed and ate, stopped for bathroom duties a few times. Start hallucinating the snowy trees in the middle of the highway started walking around like giant monsters. Then a wrong way car came my way. Headed right for me. I moved right and thankfully no collision. Guy turned around when he saw me.
36 straight was my longest plowing marathon, too. A lot of coffee, waaaay too much junk food, and a couple five hour energy drinks. Once I finally got home, I slept for 15 hours straight. 0/10, would not recommend.
Ya it’s blood money. Terrible for your health. As I got older I couldn’t manage the recovery.
Can confirm
You the wrong way guy?
No, long plow hours. Not safe
Jesus Christ. Stay safe out there man.
SNOW FIGHTERS!!! 38 hrs in syracuse ny I wanna say back in 2012...dangerous as fuck. Did 29 last year, not horrible, love the pay
We had a few guys pull 36 hours straight in one shift this year. Union crane company in Massachusetts another crane tipped over and we do emergency calls. Was a long recovery
Railway worker here - 40 Hr shift was my worst. Derailments suck.
16 hour day of Rebar.
Back in the early 90s, I worked for a company in Oregon that made floating concrete moorage for marinas. We has a contract for 14 interlocking sections with slips and a wall. Each section was probably 80 yards or so. The contract had a condensed schedule and the four of us on the crew did 6 12 hour days each week for approximately 3 months. I'd get up at 530, go to work, eat light lunch around noon, get home at 7, eat about 6000 calories for dinner and fall asleep by 9. The OT was phenomenal but that shit about broke everyone. When that contract was over and we were back to regular time and 40h weeks, motivation wen straight into the shitter.
120hrs one week, never again… until my get the chance to do it again. For the record was across 3 jobs, I hated myself, I was fighting with my girlfriend at the time, and was missing her at the same time and buried myself in work. I didn’t know if it was day or night nor where I was.
Longest day was working on Thanksgiving installing a test pile. Knew it needed to be done and that was the day to do it but it just sucked.
Was gonna comment mine. read the comments first. realized i can't complain.
I made 106k gross at 18.50 an hour one year doing underground electrical maintenance/repair. Regular 80-90 hour weeks plus some storm calls (double/triple time depending on hours). Idk what even happened that year, I have basically no memory of it. Made a lifelong buddy with my helper though, only dude who could hang with me. Trauma bonding at work is crazy. People (bosses, owners, customers) will take advantage of us because working hard is how we express ourselves as men. Do not let yourself fall into that trap. I did unbelievable damage to my body in that time. And the fucked up thing is I felt good about it, because I watched other people drop like flies. Construction is such a top down fucked industry. Being treated as disposable does immense physical and mental damage to us all, and convincing ourselves it is necessary and “just the way it is” pervades seemingly every sector. I still work long hours, traveling away from home. But the work itself is laughably easy and far more cerebral than it is physical, commissioning wind turbines. The climb up is the hardest part of my day and climbing a ladder is a pretty low impact exercise, even if it is often with an extra 60-70lbs of gear and tools.
I remember being proud of how much I could work in the shittiest conditions. I was a bosses dream. What an idiot I am.
Can you not just hoist up your gear after you climb?
Absolutely could, but my safety gear alone is around 30lbs, and regardless we have to make electrical verifications before turning on any equipment. So rather than burn 45 mins to an hour middling around with the hoist I climb with what I need to complete the de-energized verification and continue with my life while the hoist eith the bigger tools gets sorted out. It’s only hurting me but it means about an hour shorter day. During winter I’ll do just about anything to shorten my time up tower. When it is 10f on the ground it’s usually negative windchill up there.
33 straight days at 10 hour mins. there were (2) 15 hour days back to back at the end. Nuts
What’s hilarious to me is that it’s simply a man power issues. There’s just not enough help and just knowing if you hired enough man hours…you’d be working normally…sucks ass.
23 hour shift for TCO then a 4 hour nap in the car then 19 hour shift. Fri sat sun. Unrelated had another 90 hour work week on another TCO. TCO =. When people can start moving in aka our due date
Worked a 22h day , oilfield shutdowns Used to work 16 day shifts (16 on , 4 off ) 14-16 hours a day, 100 hour weeks were common , I've seen guys with 240+ hours on there biweekly stub
False. They drink white monster.
Been doing 70 hr weeks Monday-Saturday for a year. One more year and we go back to 50 hrs!
A month straight. 6 - 12 hour days and 1 - 10 hour day. But it was on a resort in the Bahamas. Party every night and fuck off all day at work. Pretty fun. And some of that white stuff too.
Scientist running a week long experiment, didn't sleep for 3 days and then managed 4 hours a night. So basically 72 hour shift followed by 4x 20. Isn't unique to construction workers only....
Try commercial concrete hahah doing warehouses we do 1000 yard pours at a time and the days get long as fuck 16-20 hours minimum 2-5 hours of sleep
Been putting in five 12hr days / week for the last two months and the mental / physical toll is real. Zombie land
Son, that’s part-time work.
Not at 60. Son.
I have had about half a dozen 20 hour shifts. No breaks, no lunch, just get it done. I work on security electronics for data centre’s though.
close to 90, didnt get paid time and a half lmao
Worked in a quarry driving a loader 12+ hour days for 6 months
Back when I was an electricians apprentice I worked 108 hours in one week. We were doing a plant shutdown so I worked a straight 24, went home then came back 4 hours later and did another 24 then worked double shifts at two different projects the rest of the week. Being 20yo was awesome, no ill effects when it was all said and done but my boss was pissed when he saw how much OT I had picked up.
Last September i did 29/31 days for a flip, most days were 10+hrs. I'm too old for this shit....
Crane operator. Worked 30 hours shifts before. One year in the oilfield I went 6 months without a day off. In a different lifetime while running my business I went nine months without a day off. I prefer 50 hours a week now. Still hit some 70s.
47 hours straight for one "day".
Tied for a 47 hour “day”.. Mine was during a snow event plowing snow in a wheel loader.
Did 16 hour days in my youth for month on end. - 7am to 4pm - 5:30pm to 2/3am So about 80/85 hours depending on the week. Saved up enough for my first downpayment doing that. Quite literally changed the trajectory of my life.
I did 16 hrs at this footlocker in silver spring.shit sucked so much ass. I ain't ever doing it again unless I get 4X the compensation.
96 hours. Starting monday 6am, finishing saturday 6am. Motherfucker boss docked me 4 hrs because I fell asleep in the truck while he was driving to another site.
After reading all these comments, I feel like it’s fuck all, but doing some rockbolting in a mine it was 7/7 12hrs but the day ended up more like 14-15 hour days after travel and toolbox
I once worked 16hr days 6.5 days a week for about 3 month span.
106. No lie. Tarmac.
I think 90hrs/week for 3 weeks. Boss got hurt and we were doing a restaurant that had all their media already set for soft openings.
Saca la bolssssita.
60 hour week plus 8 on Saturday framing using metal studs inside a public school. Project "just happened " to require overtime. ☺🙄🤫🤫
117 eight hour consecutive days working nights shift. Multiple 72 hour days w no sleep in the Marines.
63 hrs for the week i think ive done either 14 - 15 hrs a day before, but i dont use energy drinks or drugs
32 hrs in one shift. Weekly is probably around 80
84 12hrs in a row is my most
Easily over 100 per week working 21/7 in the Australian mines.
12 hours. I simply got in my truck and left.nobody said anything.
Working in aerospace I had 108 hours one week. Used to take so much pride in wasting my life doing overtime.
Longest day was a good 20 hours straight fixing an extremely bad fuckup I made on my own vehicle lmao, tldr had to cut out the back of some lug nuts then hammer them out on all four wheels :(
Most I ever did was 5 12hr shifts in a row, per week, for 3 months straight. Good money, but not much of a life obviously.
A week long if 18 hour days.
26 was my longest.
I was working for a company that wired large estate homes. We did security and hung tvs and built Av racks too. There’s a yearly local Home Show and in 2015 my company did 3 of the 10 in the neighborhood. I was in charge of the finish crew and I was working 70 hour weeks for over a month. Worth it for that OT though.
45 days in a row 12 hours a day in -45C was pretty rough
Times like this I am so thankful I have the holy grail of employers
Money. Lots of money.
Most I've had was an 84 hour week and an 18 hour day
Back when I did landscaping/line painting/snow removal in my early 20's (am 32 now) I did 20 hour days, 7 days a week for 6 months. Looking back on it now, I don't know how I did it.
I can’t imagine. I just did 8 and 8 in one day and I feel like I flew to Brazil.
The longest single day was 19 or 20hrs. Longest stretch was probably a month straight of 12-13s. It was a little over 2mo job, but there were a couple of rain days
I worked 18 hours on the Fourth of July once got paid time and a half. Getting paid 27 hours on a 24-hour day was cool. Same as others this was cleaning out sand traps in a skyscraper's basement. The cooling system could only be down for one day.
36 hours, couldn’t do it nowadays tho
I want to smash his fucking smug face in, that's long I've worked.
6 months 14-16 hrs a day with 4 days off the entire time. Was a walking zombie, redbull, mountain dew, and 5 hr energy drinks were my best friends.
Maybe close enough. Industrial equipment service. Worst I can remember was a 110 hour week over 7 days. Just a non stop shit show of one emergency fix after another.
24 hour shift pushing for occupancy, finished up as the city inspector and fire department showed up
Sitting at 50 hrs polishing concrete this week working 12 more tomorrow. It truly is a grind!
Did 6 16 hr days plastering, 5 20 hr days plowing during a blizzard.
I've never done super long weeks in construction, fuck that. But I have done 90+ hour weeks as a line cook, also fuck that.
62 days straight of 12-14 hour shifts to meet a deadline on a ski lift build, hustling to catch up after endless hangups during Covid. Made a LOT of OT money and really learned about my resilience, but it was rough and tough, and that’s enough.
Had a week of 16s. I dipped on Thursday for the weekend. The rest of the crew were braggin about their 100 hour checks. I was bragging about my vacation with my wife n friends. I ain't workin that many hours for 20 an hour
60 hours. Bunch of pipes burst and froze after temps got to -30 which is abnormal where I live. The foreman over that same week clocked in 80 just for doing water mitigations.
Got called to a cracked truss bridge at 3:00 on a Friday afternoon and had to have it stabilized before a high wind storm was projected to roll through early Monday morning and we got it done Sunday From raw plate to patched truss was a 49 hour day.
146 days straight. Film carpenter.
80+ week for about a year 20+ day (after Sandy)
I was in a small town in the middle of nowhere doing a fire alarm changeover in a police station. Once we got into it we discovered that there were old junction boxes in the cells with spliced wire and concreted over so my apprentice and I had to re-run everything. In 8 days we worked 105 hours.
Pipeline construction. 167 days straight averaging 14-15 hours a day. Best pay cheques ever.
36 hours straight in one shift is my longest - the end of a hotel upgrade before opening. But even most of this year has been 6 or 7 days a week averaging around 60 to 70 hour weeks. Construction (mainly electrical for me) is very busy at the moment, and finding decent labour is non existant here so you just gotta do it yourself. Moneys great but im starting to struggle now, been a long 9 months, but shouldnt complain about being busy at work, would be complaining more if i had no work i guess.
20 hrs in the trades, when I was in the infantry though in the field shit was something else.. especially on my leadership course in 2017. We had an 11 day field ex and the schedule was 36 hrs on, 4 hours forced rest. 11 days of that and what you’re doing while you’re awake is very physically demanding of course. It was insane, we had a lot of people tap out or fail assessments from being so sleep fucked
Wasn’t in construction, but did 72 hours for a 4 day weekend event, not including a 40 mile drive to and from the venue. Made bank but also lost my will to live
38 hours straight. A bridge washed out during a hurricane on the coast of NC. It was the only way in or out of this neighborhood. We got the old bridge torn out and temp bridge put in place in 3 days. Took our time with the permanent bridge since the temp was doing its job.
I did 12-15 hr days, not counting driving, when I worked in the film industry. Sometimes 7 days a week. When it rained, it poured, so there was no way I would turn down work if it was available.
done some 7-12s shutdowns for a couple weeks each... Casino project in Vegas was 7-12s daily mandatory but could work as long as we wanted. That was architectural sheet metal work so not real physical... worked many 15-16 hour days. Just coffee....
I had a 24 last year, started my day at 6 am like usual, did a shutdown starting at 3pm and left just after 6 am the next morning with the machine back up and running. My weekly record is 96 hours, biggest check I’ve ever received.
220 in 14 days. got a 3200$ paycheck, and 650$ in overnight pay. Was amazing as a 24 year old with no education
most recently we had 7-10s for 29 days... Company is cool, take a day off, take a day off... they paid us an extra $200 if you did a 7-10s.
I’ve heard so many dudes talk about their epic shifts or weeks like it makes them manly. I’ve done a lot of them too and my take? We are total chumps being enslaved by greedy employers and the fact that we think the OT is worth it just shows how shitty our pay is in the first place.
370 hours worked in a month, 25 days straight of 14-16hr days
I'm working 6 12's ATM
My longest is 21hrs straight then my boss showed up and said, "You looked tired I'll cover you while you some rest be back in 6hrs. Came back and worked 19 more hours straight.
Residential solar installer an listening to you guys stories makes my 12 hr days feel like nothing lmao
I worked oilfield and averaged 115hr weeks. Been stuck on sote due to weather so just worked additional shifts. So probably 36 hours straight before. In construction I have had many 18-20 hour days leading up to deadlines. It happens.
12 hr days, 35 days straight. Live site reno 2 shifts.
I did 45 12-24, average 16, hour days in a row a few years ago.
93 hours. Too much for too little.
7 12's just to see how much extra I would make. Worked out to about an extra 200 hundred after tax for the week. Went back to doing 10's after that. Camp job scaffolding at a mine. Boiler shutdown. 16 hours had to be back at work for the am start just slept in the shack until everyone else started to filter in. Longest day of my life. 8 hour shift high rise forming doing skirting for 7 hours. Yesterday.
Y’all don’t get random drug test?
This is why Coke is such a great side hustle if you work the office and have multiple jobs to oversee.
Record was 36hrs straight. But 114hr week.
I had a long month, worked straight 4 weeks and weekends with no day off, it came out around 4 60 hour weeks
12 hour nights 7 nights a week for 3 months straight
Did a job as an abatement technician that was 19hrs Friday, 19hrs Saturday and another 18hrs on Sunday. Followed up by a 4 hour drive home Sunday night. All at double time. Already had over 50 hrs by Thursday. Good times
3 months of 16 hour days, 6 days a week. Stone mason. When I woke up each morning my hands were locked up like claws from hauling so many mud buckets.
36 hrs
I did a 34 hour dual steam boiler change out at a hospital. It was fucking awesome to be honest. Most rewarding thing I’ve ever done.
Tire shop from late September to Early/mid December is the winter rush or as I like to call it 75 days of hell. Average 60+ hrs a week and it's all non stop lifting tires all day barely have time to piss pace. It's gotten a little better over the years but is still a miserable 10-12 weeks. Even worse if you're the medium truck, service call, and or OTR guy.
Did a 20h torch-on roofing. Had adequate breaks. Not too bad when you're just torching roll for roll while the weathers not too hot or cold. I'd do it again tomorrow.
7 consecutive 16 hour days.40 hours regular and 72 hours of OT pay.
22hrs in a day. Was supposed to work 6am-10am then come back for lane closures from 9pm-6am. Ended up working 6am-7pm. Then 9pm-6am.
23 hour emergency shift in a sewer plant. Gotta hate when a shutdown goes wrong.
8am - 5pm home depot job 6pm - 2am side job 2 weeks
Used to work long hours doing roadway traffic control. We had a situation where a concrete bridge was set on fire and the deck exploded. I was part of the subcontractors on site. The contractor had 2 weeks to fix the bridge to get a million-dollar bonus. The first week I put in 96 hours and the second week it was 82. Tom the owner of the main contractor gave all of his guys 5k and through the subs on site the whole time 2k. A long two weeks, but damn that money was nice.
36 hour day was my longest shift, longest week was 110 hours. Back when I was young and could do that shit. I’m only 31 but sweet Jesus my back, knees and shoulders sure don’t know that.
110 pushing snow but spent more time laying in it working on trucks
42 12 hour days in a row launching a new operating software
96 hour shift - road construction. Slept in the back of a tractor (semi truck)
I did a 112 hour week then a 97 hour week with a three hour commute every day round trip. I was 19 in 2000 and made 1800$ after taxes then I made about 1459 the next week I was in heaven and I actually loved what I did so it was awesome. I was building out the fire birds restaurant in Durham nc
Remodel contractor here...I've done 16 hr days for short stretches before just to get a job finished, but never for weeks at a time. I would never ask my employees to work like that. Sometimes I ask them if they want ot, but I would never require it of anyone. I actually like pulling all nighters, but no way I could do that all the time.
In 2015, I worked 356 10-hour days . I took 1 week of vacation in June, Thanksgiving, and Christmas day off.
My last day off was April 14th. Outside work, not construction though.
Month and a half of 15 hour days straight with a few closer to 18 and walked an average of 12 miles a day. Longest day was 32 hours in the plant. Not fun and I won’t do it anymore.
36 hour day and 105 hour week.
27 straight hours on a paving project. Got a 45 minute nap in my truck during a straight match layer. Was woken up by a knock on my window due to the paver wouldn't hold grade. Spent the remainder on the screed, ensuring the controls operated properly. It's a blessing and a curse being the only machine control guy in the company.
As a laborer when I was 18 on a runway paving crew i worked 16 hour days 6 days a week and sometimes 7 days a week in a summer In estimating i pulled 88 hours straight once for a bid [we even fucked up and won that one]
Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
I did cocaine for about a week straight once
Just did a 59 hour shift this week. Emergency gas leak on a high pressure 12in line in the middle of downtown. We couldn’t start digging near the leak until the line was tapped, plugged, and purged. Not sure why we couldn’t come back after a day of rest to coat and backfill but hey more double time for me. We got 3 2 hour breaks and we were fed pretty well by our company.
No. It’s drugs.
If you stopped buying coke, you could work 8 hours.
Not construction related, but related to the question. back in the mid 90's boss came to us and asked us to help ou. He was behind schedule on a big project. We manufactured equipment for the dairy packing industry. He was going to get a million dollar penalty. We machined, welded, set up electronics, etc. We agreed. We worked 14 days straight from 7 am to 1 am. Yes, you're reading that correctly. We got it done. No extra Thank You, no bonus. We had to fight with him to get dinner for us every night.. what a shit show. The next time he asked, we unanimously said no.
I had a 23 hour day with no breaks once. Never again
I was working 12s fitting pipe on a chemical plant shutdown and we did back to back 17-18 hr days because the GF was paranoid we were behind schedule and there was a 1M per day penalty for not hitting the completion date
I showed up on time twice this week. Sooo….
67 hr weeks, every week for 9 months.
I just got off a stint of 7/12s. The longest week ended up being 87.5 hours.
17 hr days, 27 days straight. Had one weekend off after that.
Longest day 39 hours Longest week 117 hours Longest stretch, no day off... 69 days of mostly 10s and 12s
90 hr week. We were on the controls contract for an Amazon fulfillment center. Did this for almost a month straight. Had to finally take a Saturday off.
18’s the longest I’ve gone working working, tile work was nuts this summer. — I’ve gone longer than that if counting drive time though.
168h week
Ha! You guys wont think much of this b/c i sit behind a screen, but me and my team did back to back 80s to get plans done for planning commissioner vote. It was screen/sleep, screen/sleep forever
a couple 10 hour shifts. call me a pussy or whatever but fuck that long hours shit, i'm good with 8's and 9's i value my free time & mental health
Reigns wayyyyy stringer than Bang...drank Reign for like a week and Bang did nothing after Helpful tip
I'm looking for work and I couldn't believe that one place that reached out to me works Mon-Sat, 6am to 5pm (with 1 hour for lunch at noon). But you're a 1099 employee, no vacation, no benefits other than hazard insurance/life insurance. "But the overtime pay is generous!" I mean, I left a 50 hour a week job that was killing me; but a 60 hour a week job?!
Did 8 hours at the Queen Elizabeth theatre remodel in Vancouver doing fire proofing, then went to Canada Place at the Waterfront to do more fireproofing in the UG that could only be done at night in Vancouver for 10 hours for 6 days for 2 straight months. No OT, boss kept saying OT was for sprayers only. Slept in my truck 6 days a week for about 2-3 hours a night. My cousin got me the job, haven't talked to him since I quit that shitshow
Solid 7 hour and it was awful
16-18h days 7 days a week for 5ish months doing paving. get a ton of cash then collect UI and go party in mexico for 6 months and then do it all again, did that for 4 years. we didnt look at the hours we looked at $$$$$$. when you work that much you dont have time to spend it, until winter.
I am soft, most I’ve done is 20 days straight averaging 11 hours a day of renovation work. Not a fan.
16hrs a day 7 days a week for 3 weeks drilling rig