I’m going to be setting a new personal record. I have a 30-day shift (normally not legal, but they got a permit I presume), with 12 hours per day… plus 2 hours of travel time (actually the daily travel is 3 hours but the company insists it’s our fault if we’re somehow navigating the traffic on the single highway leading there wrong). So based on hours paid, I’m going for 420 hours.
It’s a bit much, especially since I was expecting a 20-day shift of 10 hours per day (+2 travel).
Oh you’ve got me beat hands down. The compensation had better be fricken sweet for that kind of insane workload.
380 in a horrific, mind numbing, brain bleeding month.
When I was working as a research assistant in grad school, I had a 400 hour month. At the time I was getting paid $15/hr no-overtime and thought I was wearing the money hats. It was long but mostly consisted of reading, writing, listening and phone calls at my own pace on my own accord. Plus I was into the work, so it wasn’t too bad.
Since then the most has been 2 70’s+, a 60+ and a 90+, for around 300 hours this summer. That was worse, in that felt like I was run through the mill due to the stress and non-overtime salaried nature of my position (as a manager in a leadership role), as well as the 24 hour nature of those days. A few 3AM wake up calls along with day time crises will ruin anyone’s disposition. I was not unhappy when the regular manager’s vacation/leave ended.
Back in the dotcom craziness I worked on the first launch of cbsnews.com (and god knows how many affiliate sites). Several weeks of 12-14 hour days (not including commute), followed by a week of basically all-nighters in a room full of web guys and Oracle DBAs.
I managed okay, but I was in my twenties and didn’t have kids. Nowadays I work some late nights, but I can’t handle more than a few consecutive. Here’s hoping you are paid OT/hourly, I never was.
14 hours a day, 7 days a week with some 20-hour ones mixed in! All for some silly Mortal Kombat ports back in the early 90’s.
That has me way beat… most I ever did was about 300 at most. And that was grueling as hell.
When I did organ recovery, at one point half the staff quit and I was promoted to senior recovery coordinator by attrition. Between call, office hours, and training of the new staff I would have to say I worked upwards of 380 hours or so in the month after. I am dead certain I worked an average of 12 hours a day, every single day, with maybe 1 or 2 days off in that period, and at least once a week I worked over 24 hours straight on an organ case. I don’t mean to sound as if I am bragging or whatever, it is just what happened. All I can say is that line of work sucked and I never want to go back to doing it ever again.
You guys are crazy.
I don’t remember exactly, but I’m sure I’ve never worked over 200 hours in a month. I haven’t worked over 160 a month in years and years.
You get paid for your transportation time, Jakub?
Perhaps I’ve reached 200 in one busy month, but mostly overtime is just for a few days, and then I take time of to compensate so my normal month never exceeds 150 hours (not counting my 2 hour daily commute)
I agree with ElGuapo, I never ever worked more then 200 hours a month. I work to live, not live for work.
Back in the day working as a Licensing Manager at Funcom with clients all over the world and the weird times involved with Europe/US/Asia time zones i did about 240 hours. Hectic, but not too bad. I normally had at least one day off per week and i was young(ish) and single so i just slogged through.
Was a few years ago now but I had a month or so of working around 550 hours a month (based on 20 hours a day, 7 days a week). Would start at 7pm on one site, work there until 7am, go to the other site and work there until 3pm. Get home around 3.30, sleep until 6, rinse and repeat.
I don’t recommend it and I’d never do it again. At the time I thought I was showing dedication to the job and the project. With hindsight, even being paid overtime I was just being used by the company.
I’ve done a couple of 76’s (Just over 300 hours for a month). In neither case did it last for an entire month though. You folks that have done more than that are crazy. That’s insane hours already. More than that and I would have gone crazy. That in itself was an average of about a standard week of 12 hour days and two full days over the weekend.
420 hours? Jakub I really hope it’s worth it. Good luck bud.
The summer before I went to college, I worked climbing communications towers with my father. I worked four sixty-hour weeks (12 hours a day), not counting the transportation time to and from the job sites, some of which were about five hours away. We’d stay in motels for the week. So probably about 260-280 hours in one month would be the worst for me.
It was kinda fun for the summer. I was outside working in the sun, it was really good exercise climbing up and down three-hundred-foot towers each day, and it was the most manly thing I’ve ever done in my life, which -really- should tell you something about the path my life has taken. I was in phenomenal shape once it was done, too, which does wonders for your self-esteem and overall energy level.
But I couldn’t do it full-time. For one, you’re away from your family all the time. I saw my father more during those weeks than I did probably my entire senior year of high school. For two, you’ve got just enough energy when you get home at seven at night to shower and fall into sleep. I mean, -I- didn’t because I was 18 years old, so I’d go run a gaming session with my friends or go hang out downtown until 2 AM, then sleep for three hours and head to work again, but when you’re 18 you’re not actually human. I couldn’t even begin to do that now.
Now I work 40 hours a week, 160 hours a month, at a cushy desk job and can’t stand to do any more. I’ve gotten soft.
I was never on a job that paid by the month. Only for weekly and biweekly periods of time. And I don’t recall any specific period of monthly pay as far as the number of hours I was paid for goes.
Shortly after I graduated from high school, I was on a job that paid on a weekly basis and I recall getting paid for 112.5 hours. I cannot honestly say it was the most hours in a week I ever worked because I was paid for travel time as well as actual work hours. But still 112.5 hours x4 = 450 hours in a four-week span of time is quite a lot.
Much more than the 40 hours a week I grew so accustomed to in later years.
How does one’s brain stay effective for that long? I worked around 4 straight 55 hour weeks last “busy” season as an accountant. I did work about 60 straight days without a full day off, but not all of those were even 8 hour days, obviously.
After about 10-12 solid hours of staring at a computer trying to figure out proper accounting treatment or reviewing supporting documentation for crap, I just cannot focus enough to be productive. Now a job that took less meantal concentration… I could do that for longer, or if I had more breaks where I could get away for 15 minutes or so. You guys must have super-brains.
No, they have retarded management who think that “more hours == more overal productivity” regardless of the amount of hours.
Well, I was trying to be more positive and uplifting. Way to ruin it. ;)
You guys are crazy.
I don’t remember exactly, but I’m sure I’ve never worked over 200 hours in a month. I haven’t worked over 160 a month in years and years.
Depends on the compensation. It’s worth it at Epic but I can’t speak for other companies or industries. If you get nothing for it, yeah, you’re crazy to submit to it.