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Jesus Fuck. 3131 Responses
Last post: 12 months ago | Thread started: Jun 21, 12, 2:24 a.m.
- 23kon
Go home. Have a good sleep.
Wake up, phone into work and tell them that your body clock is all-to-fuck because of having to work the 24 hours stint and that you need more sleep. Go back to sleep. Go back to work when you feel you are ready, phone in sick another day if need be.They won't ask you to do a 24 hour stint again after that as it loses them working hours in the future.
There's absolutely NO POINT in doing a solid 24 hours. Your brain is mince at the end of it. You're better grabbing yourself some sleep during the time - your productiveness will be so much better.
- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 2:33 a.m. – Permalink
- detritus
Been quite a few years since I did a 24 hourer for someone else.
Been only a few months since I did one for myself.
*shrugs*
As long as you get compensated for it (and you don't get expected to do more as standard!) — it's all good.
Work just needs to get done sometimes.
- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 2:38 a.m. – Permalink
- ESKEMA
This is not the norm here, just happened because of a big presentation, I have very good relationship with my employers and one of them is in the same boat as me and another colleague.
I will be compensated, in fact I'm ordered to compensate. i'm not whining about it, still it's 25 fucking hours and counting, probably another half hour or something.- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 2:57 a.m. – Permalink
- d_rek
Doesn't sound like it's a regular issue so maybe just suck this one up and take a personal day or two off.
If it was a regularity it would be signs of a much bigger problems, ie: piss-poor process, project, account, client management, etc.
Although, whenever faced with what looks like it could be an all nighter i often remind myself and my peers of this: Is your client losing sleep over this project too? Probably not. So go get some fucking sleep.
- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 5:33 a.m. – Permalink
- ohhhhhsnap
They say that if you've been up for anything past 34 hours, your brain changes. Creates damage even and you won't be the same.
Take care of your mind/body man. No work is worth "pain and suffering." Effort yes but pain... not so much.
- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 6:31 a.m. – Permalink
- vaxorcist
...expectations management anyone?
..or was it a case where something had an unseen complication and the deadline stayed...
...or was there some needed stuff that showed up at the last minute in not quite the right format and you had to do a marathon of brainless tweeking to make the deadline?
Anyway, I had a situation once where the website announcement had been printed on all sorts of posters everywhere, advertised, etc and the clients IT department database integration stuff was insanely slow and in a wrong format, so we had consecutive allnighters trying to fix this, when it could have been handled by suit to suit negotiations earlier, but that's another story...
- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 8:04 a.m. – Permalink
- vaxorcist
One other thing.. I have what I call the 4am brain-mess, where I tend to do something horribly wrong that I thought was right at 4am, then figure out I messed up at about 6am... then spend the next 3 hours trying to undo it and figure out what I messed up, so I've taken to simply stopping at 3:30 am no matter what, sleeping at least 2 hours and starting again if this happens...
- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 8:06 a.m. – Permalink
- exador1
years ago, when i worked in advertising, stuff like this generally happened at least every other month....
thankfully we had a decent couch at the office to sleep on...
but generally it was: work all night, maybe around 5 or 6am grab 2 hours of sleep on the couch...then by the time 9am rolled around, back to work...just part of the deal of working in that particular office....
it sucked. but that's life.
not the kind of thing i'd do now, but in my early 20's it seemed like it was just the way work went sometimes....i now, of course, realize it's more to do with the fact that people in their early 20's can be manipulated into doing all sorts of stupid shit like that....try asking a 40 year old with a family at home to stay all night at the office....prooooobably not going to happen....
- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 8:09 a.m. – Permalink
- prophetone
take a day off, rest, get an avocado facial, solved.
- Dog-earJun 21, 12, 8:12 a.m. – Permalink
