Have any of you done more than 140?
I did a week of 24 hour shifts. It was at a desk clerk in the off season, so it wasn’t too bad.
I couldn’t answer. There’s no response for 75.274.
126 for me, 18x7 for 3 weeks in a strike coverage situation. Then a 3 day break, and 2 more weeks of it before it was all settled.
A company that I used to work for moved to a newer, bigger building and in one week I worked over 80 hours. On the whole, I’ve tended to avoid overtime. But I have worked 50 hour weeks every week for years at a time. The money was nice but I place a high value on my free time as well.
Does school count? I worked 7am to midnight 5 days in a row during Final Exam week my 3rd semester of graduate school. Most of it was on one damned paper in a child welfare policy class I was terrified I would fail. (I did not fail.) That’s 85 hours.
I have an almost ethical issue with working that hard for too long at once. I am capable of working very hard for short periods of time on things I care passionately about. I’ve got no problem putting in extra hours at work during periods of high volume, to help out at special events. etc.
But I’m not one of those ‘‘work for the sake of work’’ people. If a job routinely requires more than 50 hours a week, it’s not the job for me.
I pulled a 37-hour day once. Talk about your fatigue poisons! I was every bit as good as drunk!
I put in for 119 hours, but I may have worked more than that in a single week, depending on some definitions of both “work” and “week”.
I worked a lot of extended hours, the auto factories were nortorious for it. At some point, AFAIR, in the late 90’s, the maximum shift hours were 12 hours. Whether this was a safety issue or a union issue, I don’t know. Prior to that, there was no limit. We had guys that routinely did 16 hours per day, 7 days a week, for weeks.
I worked 74 once, but it was a job where I sometimes had to fill in for staff in emergencies, and we had a lot of people get sick one week (after this, we started paying for flu shots for staff, although I don’t know that it was the flu that had so many people laid up). I think it was a time when we were already stretched thin, because we had a lot of employees who were college students, and there was a long weekend, and some of them had gotten vacation approved way ahead of time. Anyway, a lot of the hours were spent sleeping. We had people who were disabled and couldn’t be alone, so we had staff who slept over, and that was what a lot of the subs were any time I put in a week of 60+ hours.
If a staff person got a regular night’s sleep with no interruptions, they got $4.25 for sleep time, which was less than minimum wage, but is was some kind of special circumstance we had approved. If they had to get up, they got day rates for any awake time, plus sleep time if they didn’t get four-hour blocks. What I mean is, if the employee went to bed when the client did, slept for two hours, had to get up and do something for the client that took 15 minutes, went back to sleep for four hours, and had to get up again, was up doing something for 30 minutes, and then slept another two hours, the person would get $4.25/hr ($17) for the four hour block in the middle of the night, and whatever their daily rate was for the rest of the time they were there. It wasn’t too bad a deal.
I worked 18x6 for over 9 months when our company launch a new product. I learned I am a type A person when I need to be, lost too much weight and paid cash for a brand new vehicle with all the OT pay 
I worked 60 hours in a 3-day period several times in college. I had a job as an “outside events” production assistant at the theater in my college, which basically meant I was on a list to work on an as-needed basis for outside touring companies who had rented our theater. the NYC Opera toured in every winter. They would pull up at 8am thursday and be ready for a show with full lights, costume and orchestra at 8pm, two shows the next day, and be fully loaded back in the truck and ready to pull out by 8pm Sunday. They had their own roadies, some roadies from the local, and a large student crew. Union show, so they paid above minimum wage plus time-and-a-half for everything over 40. And they bought doughnuts.
I’d miss one day of classes and come home $400 richer, which was a lot in 1993. Great gig.
Well, there were times in the military where we were working 24/24 7/7 for a long time.
Resting or sleeping was still working because you weren’t really sleeping.
Without threat of death, 74 hrs straight was my longest.
Most dangerous was 24 hours of solo flight in bad weather done in a 30 hour time span. Way stupid it was.
Worked 7/wk for 6 months straight is the longest other than military.
Thankfully I’ve never had to work long weeks. I chose a profession which pays well and doesn’t require long hours.
I did 68 a number of weeks long, long ago. 10 hours Mon-Fri plus 10 Sat & 8 Sun if you wanted it. I was one of several working so many consecutive days that the company had to force us to have a day off every couple of weeks.
Close to that–I guess, as others have said, it depends on how you define “work.”
When I drove taxi it was by weekly lease, but I didn’t lease continuously. Usually for me the idea was to squeeze in as much driving as possible within the week I had the cab, and then take time off, and several times I did whole weeks when I’d sleep for 4-5 hours a day and then just “drive” the entire rest of the day. A lot of that was just waiting on stands, or for dispatched rides.
I picked 70. That was for a few weeks where I had a “full-time” but temporary job during the day, and a “part-time” job in the evenings.
In college, in a canning factory, anybody could work as many shifts as they wanted, and there was a bunkhouse to sleep in and a 24-hour canteen. Lots of us worked 8-hour shifts 2-on-1-off all summer, grunt work on our feet lifting cases onto pallets, 112-hours a week all summer, for a dollar an hour, straight pay, no overtime rate.
I put down 100 hours, but it might have been a few more, I don’t recall the exact numbers. That was when me an a couple of others were parachuted in to try and rescue a failing project. It didn’t meet the deadline, hey ho, but it eventually worked. Eventually. My salaried hours were 35 hours a week, and the excess was paid at time and a half for the extra weekday hours, and the weekend ones at double time.
The bullshits gettin pretty deep in here.