What's the longest set of hours you've worked
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- bklyndroobeki
What's the longest set of hours you've worked on a project in a day.
I put in 13 today.
- bklyndroobeki0
14 i mean. For the past 2 weeks.
- mg330
I'm sure there were a few days back at an old job that I worked 16 or 17 hours once or twice. It wasn't fun, and I'm really glad I eventually moved on to a more sensible workplace.
- iCanHazQBN0
16. worked till 1am at the office.
- colin_s0
14 a couple times
- bainbridge0
14.5
- zarkonite0
Just last week I worked from 9am to 4am the next day, back at work at 9 for a full day... then I took the next day off.
- I took a pee break somewhere in there.zarkonite
- I hope you ate as well.bainbridge
- bainbridge0
I'm always on the clock.
- joking or serious?bklyndroobeki
- Reconsider your life and work.studderine
- bklyndroobeki0
I wonder if creativity peaks and dips continually... during certain times.
- aslip0
22hrs.
Took an hr nap in my office & went back to it. Worst day of my career.
- pango0
what!?!?! you guys can work less than 16 hours????
- pango0
18
- VectorMasked0
At the agency I used to work at I once worked from 9am til 5am or 6am the next day. That was like 20-21 hours. I then went home for a short nap and came back at 9am and by noon my then boss just told me to go home and rest.
Was always doing a little over time there, but luckily she was a fair person and she cared to pay for any over time that was done.
- omahadesigns0
What's the longest s...
- fyoucher10
38 hours straight, doing work for BBDO / AT&T pitch. Put a toll on me big time. In my younger years of course. Haven't done half that since.
- Might as well work at a sweatshop. Do they make mens apparel too?studderine
- I'm wasn't an employee, a vendor. Rush fees...fyoucher1
- wordssssss0
Somewhere in the low twenties. Had to work with developers overseas on a launch after full day with stateside colleagues.
But once I managed to bill 28 hours within a 24 hour period. Part of the 20 hours spent on press for one client (all billable time while on press) was spent prepping another clients AR for the following week.
- dee-dubs0
done a few 24 hour stint over the years, glad to say haven't had to put shift in like that for a while. Really don't think it is good for the soul!
- studderine0
If I need to work 14+ hours to get something done then what does that tell you about the project/company/people? Fuck off.
- scarabin0
15s were pretty common at my last shop
- detritus0
Back in the ol'Agency Days I put in a few 24+ hourers, and I've got repressed memories of two jobs in my current line where I'd fucked up timings and ended up doing 24+ hours to sort it all out. One time with my hands in buckets of cold water for about 8 hours of the full day, manically cleaning char dust off silicone, because my test material didn't burn, but the stuff the client sent me did. Fun times. Hands were broken for days after that...
Although they don't tend to be focused on a 'single project', I regularly do 14+ hour days — I wouldn't even find that sort of time noteworthy, to be honest.
Helps that I'm doing my own thing, and would rather pile on times on top of each other and have more time off otherwise... also, some of my job can be done with a joint and a drink in hand (once all the complex stuff's organised, obviously), which helps.
- similarly, most of my 24hr runs were my screwing up the timingGnash
- detritus0
Generally, trying to do complex mental or creative stuff after 12 hours in a sitting is stupid behaviour though, and probably indicative of hapless management and procedures.
- Yes, they don't care about you.studderine
- we had a project manager that would fuck around in her office all day until 5, then start giving us projectsscarabin
- Didn't have to do the work; don't care about you.studderine