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What has been your longest working day?

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  • vacheron
    vacheron Posts: 2,348 Forumite
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    onwards&upwards wrote: »
    The M62 is nowhere near Birmingham? Unless there’s some other meaning for M62 that I’ve never heard of?

    Sorry, M42. That’s because I’ve bern working on M62 schemes all this month! :)
    • The rich buy assets.
    • The poor only have expenses.
    • The middle class buy liabilities they think are assets.
  • bugslett
    bugslett Posts: 416 Forumite
    vacheron wrote: »
    Sorry, M42. That’s because I’ve bern working on M62 schemes all this month! :)

    I'll give you a wave;). Actually it'll be slow enough we can have a brew:rotfl:
    Yes I'm bugslet, I lost my original log in details and old e-mail address.
  • deadendwaterfall
    deadendwaterfall Posts: 308 Forumite
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    12 hour night shifts in various factories.
    :o
  • Maguireufc
    Maguireufc Posts: 1 Newbie
    Last weeks working hours.
    Friday 05:00 till 21:00
    Saturday 03:30 till 18:00
    Sunday 06:00 till 01:00 Monday morning.
    Monday 08:30 till 18:00
    Tuesday 08:00 till 18:00
    Wednesday 07:00 till 18:00
    Thursday 03:00 till 18:00
    And today 05:00 till 18:00
    My normal working day is a minimum of 10 hours. Would say I average 65 to 70 hours a week normally spread out over 5 days with the weekend off.
  • mklister
    mklister Posts: 35 Forumite
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    About 15 years ago when I did a stocktaking job while off from University on Summer holidays it had some long shifts. Set off from home at 4pm to walk half an hour to the office where we got picked up, got driven in the mini bus to Manchester to pick up more staff, then it was off to Derby.

    Worked 6:30pm - 7am. It was 10:30am before I got home because the Manchester lot would insist on being dropped off at their door. When it came to us from Warrington we just got dropped off at the office.

    We were supposed to receive money for travel time but the agency never gave it to us.
  • Greylocks
    Greylocks Posts: 65 Forumite
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    In the old days I regularly used to work 28 hour shifts in the NHS but with some breaks. The last few hours were pretty terrible.
    Reducing to 24 hours was a big improvement.
    Nowadays I’m ready to go home after 10 hours.
  • PookyW
    PookyW Posts: 103 Forumite
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    Because I freelance, sometimes to get a project out I can be glued to the pc for 36 hours. A typical day is 9 - 11 hours but not as bad as it sounds because I fit the time around my family and take days off to suit them.
  • newwave19
    newwave19 Posts: 41 Forumite
    Left for work at 6:15am, worked 7:15-3:15, then drove to the next job and started at 4:30pm until 4:30am. 15 minutes home, so that's a total. so that's 22.5 hours
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