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Yes, I've done 10-12 days straight more than once - but that was mostly by choice, since I don't always work a full shift (and wanted to get 40 hours). Even with my regular schedule, I never get two consecutive days off! My off days are always Friday/Monday or Saturday/Monday, so I'd love to actually get two days sometimes.
Yup, I work 7 days a week quite frequently. I own my own business and work from home a lot. My husband works in IT and quite often will work a bit on his days off. Projects don't wait for people to work on them. They need to get done and there are tight deadlines that have to be met.
I'm getting over 40 hours/week, while the managers are directing ANY coworker in my position to me if they need a shift covered, so I've worked for 13 consecutive days straight (with them sometimes being shifts that are longer than 8 hours, all nocturnally). I'm going to assume that this is a yellow or red flag.
Prior to getting into the long haul trucking game, the longest I've gone without a day off was 4.5 months. I worked, on average, 14 hours each day. 13 days straight isn't ####!
I'm in the commercial seafood industry, lot's long days/7 days a week periods. It's not a big deal, part of the expectations and culture. Commute, housing, meals are either little factor or taken care of.
One period where it did get grinding was 2003 after my home purchase, had a 45 hour week job and was looking at higher housing costs so I took a Fri/Sat/Sun overnight shift working "front desk" (security) from 11pm-7:00am at a high-end downtown retirement center. Lasted almost 12 months and was glad it I did it- but more glad that it was over.
We were short-handed at tax time one year and the word was that anyone on my team could work as much overtime as they wanted. I put in a little over two weeks of every day, in at 6 AM, work until about 9 PM, home to shower and catch some sleep in the recliner, alarm goes off at 5:15 AM. Lather, rinse and repeat. Man, what a paycheck, but I would never have done it again.
Sure, I have done it a number of times. I used to work a job with significant seasonal demands. Twice a year I would work 12-17 days in a row, and I did that for about 20 years.
Salaried exempt, but I took some comp to make up for the long days.
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I had a 5-year stretch where I was working a swing-shift 40 hour union mechanic job that had a mandatory "stay for overtime" if notified at least 1/2 hour before the end of the shift. Management could also notify you to report for the next shift even if it was your scheduled day off. Due to my skillset and the senior mechanics not wanting to work the overtime (they could refuse due to seniority), the management had me working 7-days/week for years on end with lots of overtime for a few days each week. Yeah, the gross pay at time and a half and doubletime looked good, but the wear and tear on me and on the marriage was pretty tough.
At the same time, I'd started my own indie repair shop and was trying to build that up with repeat clientele/contract work on fleets. Most of my 8-hr only regular job days were then finished out with 3-5 hours in my own business shop.
In due course, I was able to build up my clientele to a point where I could quit my "regular" job. While a happy day to lock up the tool boxes there for the last time and load them up ... I fell into a workload that was as many hours per week in my own shop. Took three years before I saw a day off. If i wasn't in the shop doing actual work, I needed to be at my desk doing the paperwork, parts ordering, etc.
When I bought out a retiring guys' shop in Denver with employees, I thought my endless workload would be lightened. That's when my real education into the business world began and I continued to work as many hours/days as before ... but with an infrequent weekend day off. Finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel and adjusted shop schedule, workload, and employee count to where it was manageable and affordable for me.
But that was a tough decade for me.
Nowadays, when it's harvest time for my alfalfa at the farm/ranch, I do it all. Cut hay, rake, bale, retrieve and stack. Can be 15 hour days for 6-10 days in a row. Well past retirement age, it's a lot of work with 3 cuts per season. Maybe someday I'll contract out some of this work, or hire somebody to operate my equipment. But not yet, not this year.
I once worked 16 hour days 6 days a week for 3 months. /shrug
I got the flu.
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