FabSwingers.com forum: Just wondered what the longest shift was anyone had worked?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

morning everyone.i am a support worker and I am an hour into my 31.5 hr shift, was just wondering what the longest shift was any of you had worked .....have a fucktastic day and happy swinging x

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

3 yards.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Although I once worked a whole mile but that was back in the day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Longest so far is a 18 hour shift for me. But I've got a long shift coming up doing 2 double shifts back to back :/

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Longest shift was 4 days with only getting half hour shut eye on the job every 8 hours totally shagged at end of it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I do project work. At times its all guns blazing. Once I went into work on a Friday morning and then I was told to go home on the Sunday afternoon lest I injure myself!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"morning everyone.i am a support worker and I am an hour into my 31.5 hr shift, was just wondering what the longest shift was any of you had worked .....have a fucktastic day and happy swinging x"

I did 5 days with a total of 6 hours sleep and by the end was vomiting, incoherent, dizzy and on the point of collapse. Never again!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I frequently work 26hr shifts in my current job.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

I do 96 hour shifts, but get to sleep and rest during them. It's more just a case of being out of the house for 4 days straight.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In my job I was never off shift.....

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I've done 16hrs before, but worst part was that it was 7 days a week for a month.

Now, I don't work shifts at all, it's so much better

Cal

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"morning everyone.i am a support worker and I am an hour into my 31.5 hr shift, was just wondering what the longest shift was any of you had worked .....have a fucktastic day and happy swinging x

I did 5 days with a total of 6 hours sleep and by the end was vomiting, incoherent, dizzy and on the point of collapse. Never again!!"
Not so good then least I get to sleep if he's not anxious x

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

I used to do 4 months regularly.

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By *ady4ladyWoman
over a year ago

liverpool

Oh my

i so read the word 'shift' wrongly

couldnt believe some had asked such an awful question

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

I did 60 hours once.

I worked Friday, during which a numptie, who should never have been allowed near a server, trashed the system responsible for processing online orders. I spent the entire weekend trying to put it back together in time for Monday morning. I got home at 8pm on Sunday. And then was back in the following morning.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I once did a 28 hour shift driving............. but after about 25 hrs i fell asleep behind the wheel.

Only ONCE!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well it's hard to say how long but was once working on a large refurbishment job on a famous London cricket ground.

And a very famous listed building at same time. Cricket ground during day other night and weekends.

So used to leave about five on Monday morning work all day till about 5:30 grab some food travel to other location ready to start once all staff had left about 6:30 we would work all night till about 3:30 travel home quick shower an hour or so kip and start again.

Friday we would work right through till about 9 Sunday evening then go home for a decent kip.

Did this for about three weeks until we all started getting Ill as working our bollox off heavy manual labour.

One day just blurs into another.

Couldn't imagine being able to do that now.

Easy when you are in your 20's.

That said the guy in charge worked with us and he was a work pervert and was hardest worker there.

He was mid 50's hat's off to you bill.

Rip

Never had a day off sick in the 30 year's working for the company, until he just dropped dead.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Whilst in the Army I worked 48 hours straight through when certain jobs had to be done (I was an Engineer) but most front line soldiers go for days surviving on the odd cat nap

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Whilst in the Army I worked 48 hours straight through when certain jobs had to be done (I was an Engineer) but most front line soldiers go for days surviving on the odd cat nap"

ditto..

once told a rupert that if i didn't have some sleep near the end of a 4 day bridge gallop operating my crane i would end up killing someone and he would be alongside me at the Courts martial..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

22 driving too i was falling asleep

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By *hattyman80Man
over a year ago

stockport

Mine was 24 hours when I did what was called a ghost shift when I worked security

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

47 hours he did once a few years ago lots coffee pro plus lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

16 hours, 10 min break, on feet all day! Dead!!!

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By *mm_n_ZedCouple
over a year ago

Fareham

35 years... as a mother!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

beat me by an hour 46 hours, had to complete the carpet fitting in a cinema or we wouldn't of got paid

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By *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

Done a whole week with 4 hours sleep a night. Longest without a break, about 60 hours.

The army wasn't fun

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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago

Wymondham

72 hrs straight working Security. Cat naps as and when possible, wife bringing me in clean shirts and food. Shower on site. All for the princely sum of £2.02/hr in 1989.

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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago

Wymondham

Longest week I ever did was 110 hours. I did 3 weeks of 110 hrs and 1 week of 105 hrs. Again, Security but this was 1993-4. Working stupid hours to pay bills whilst away on holiday. Insane.

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By *anxfrankMan
over a year ago

isle of man

27 hours for me with only a 15minute break for a brew and a smoke oh and a Couple of pisses it was a long old day/night and part of the next day too

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By *hanetMale41Man
over a year ago

ramsgate

Longest shift for me was an energy station in Stoke as security, started at 15.00pm friday and finished 8am monday morning

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Once drove to a job in Southampton, which was a four hour drive, got there 8am, worked through til 8am the following morning, to 8pm....to 10pm the next night. 42 hours total.

Yes, was knackered at the end of it.

Done plenty other 'ghosters' (as we call those kind of shifts) over the years though but that was the most hours.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Longest week I did, was working in Sunderland, all week was 8am til midnight. Then on Thursday worked through until mid-day the next day. Came in the Saturday and Sunday and worked 8am til 8pm.

This was pipefitting by the way, lifting and installing heavy steel pipes up to 6" diameter, not sat on backsides supping coffees in some security hut

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

7 pm Friday till 7 am Sunday morning, I was a security officer and there was no one to relieve me for the Saturday day shift.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Six days straight, with no sleep, split between my day job and being a dad of a teething baby, it was constant, but he's worth it the little git lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Longest week I did, was working in Sunderland, all week was 8am til midnight. Then on Thursday worked through until mid-day the next day. Came in the Saturday and Sunday and worked 8am til 8pm.

This was pipefitting by the way, lifting and installing heavy steel pipes up to 6" diameter, not sat on backsides supping coffees in some security hut

With the time and half and double times etc kicking in that week was 170 hours on the timesheet, with 8 hours in lieu that we used to get when we did a ghoster, which later got paid rather than the day off, so a total of 178 hours in for the week. Did similar hours for about a month or so on that job but that week was the most.

Was hard work doing it but was not long before Christmas and paid for a lovely Christmas that year hehe, though the bloody taxman took a good wedge of it too

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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago

Wymondham

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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago

Wymondham

"Longest week I did, was working in Sunderland, all week was 8am til midnight. Then on Thursday worked through until mid-day the next day. Came in the Saturday and Sunday and worked 8am til 8pm.

This was pipefitting by the way, lifting and installing heavy steel pipes up to 6" diameter, not sat on backsides supping coffees in some security hut

I was on 15 hr shifts 07:00 to 22:00 and working on an MOD base splitting my time between patrolling and doing car searched. No time sat on my jacksey thanks. Also, cycle to & from work too another 30 mins each way. No idea how I did it then, I feel tired thinking about it. All for standard pay, no overtime, no weekend pay, n Lieu time no nothig. Pay was (and still is) notoriously tight in Security, but if you have bills to pay you get off your arse and you work for the money.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"morning everyone.i am a support worker and I am an hour into my 31.5 hr shift, was just wondering what the longest shift was any of you had worked .....have a fucktastic day and happy swinging x"

Truthfully I've worked 9 consecutive shifts with 3 hours sleep....yes I'm greedy but I have a lifestyle to pay for

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I make Duracell look like an after thought

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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago

Wymondham

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

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By *orks1984Man
over a year ago

Huddersfield

Well I've seen the sun come up 3 times while been at sea when we was fishing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

4 14 hour shifts in a row (thurs-sun) and i was knackered off that. Doubt i could do one 14 hr shift these days.

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By *hattyman80Man
over a year ago

stockport

"4 14 hour shifts in a row (thurs-sun) and i was knackered off that. Doubt i could do one 14 hr shift these days."

Yeah but you used a time machine for that lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"4 14 hour shifts in a row (thurs-sun) and i was knackered off that. Doubt i could do one 14 hr shift these days.

Yeah but you used a time machine for that lol"

Hello.

And, hahaha made me laugh.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

13 hours,maximum I'm alowed to do.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

3no 36 hour shifts back to back with a 5 hour break between ,knackering and a lot younger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Normally only work seven hours or so. Did a 19 hour one once because it was fun and have some great colleagues around me not to mention a shit ton of money was earnt.

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London

I have been working an 18 year shift since my oldest was born as I don't think I have ever turned off as a parent ... three of them, single parent, never had a proper night's sleep as any movement they make I hear it ... oldest is about to set off for the USA, plus the day job of course

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Longest I ever did was 7 days, 5 days no sleep then 72?hours interrogation not for the faint hearted :/

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

We were in the pub trade many years the last few years we worked 18 hours a day 24-7 was a busy pun but forced to work it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

7.30am sat day shift,then drive to night shift,then Sunday day shift,drive to Sunday night shift,slept most of that,then Monday day till 18.30,slept fair bit Monday night!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I cant work more than 12hrs a week so never done a shift lol.

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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

Done the Full 40-Hours in ONE GO...

Slept for a day afterwards..

Often Done the Hundred 100 Hour Week as well..

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By *ammykingMan
over a year ago

Lisburn

36 hrs in one go

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I read shift as shit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

72 hours

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

Not including sleep but actually non stop work with scheduled 10 and 15 minuite breaks is 16 hours. Gruelling and very punishing to the hands.

Him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

60hrs once Friday night straight through till Monday evening no sleep. Lots of energy drinks and Xbox on the night to keep me awake.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you."

Luxury........

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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago

Wymondham

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

Luxury........

What I'd give for a spoon of cold gravel right now.

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