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Ringing that OT bell; what’s the most hrs you’ve worked in a week?

115 hours in 6 days during the ice storm in Texas this year. Would have been 137 or so but I had to go home mid week to handle a water issue at the house. That cost me 22 hours of OT.
 
what’s the most hrs you’ve personally clocked/ billed in a 7 day week?

i just wrapped up an 89 hr time card for the week due to a looming deadline. and while that’s not quite the most I’ve pulled, it sure isn’t a sustainable lifestyle even as a work from home keyboard jockey. But the 49 hrs of OT paycheck will certainly help ease the sting

I believe my record was somewhere around 96 hrs, and that involved a 27 hr continuous stint on a deadline.

I did some 60+ hr weeks years ago when I was commuting to an office and even being a younger man feel like they wore me out worse thatn these 80 hr WFH detail.

so what’s your record and in what type of work?
40.25 hours. Get paid well. Chill specialty skilled labor. Overtime is just more money for .gov. I make my extra money undero el tablero.
 
168 a couple times back when the oilfield was booming. 100+ was a regular thing. Most of the time they’d want you some where at a certain time then you’d wait hours or days to actually start work. Get done and go straight to the next one. Rinse and repeat.
Anymore I just want to work 50-60 hours a week.
 
I had a few weeks during planting/harvest season where I cracked 100 hours. Not that uncommon farming. The worst was working 7 days a week and forgetting what day it was because you never had a break.
 
135/week for 3 weeks back in the late 90’s. I was making $6.?? an hour.....so rich!

I just quit my job after three years of 70-80 hour weeks. Last spring when I checked the average was over 60 hours a week dividing the year by 52 weeks. I was salary with unlimited vacation but worked during most of them.
 
When I was young and dumb, I worked some 80+ hours weeks, 24+ hours shifts, and 3-4 weeks straight.

Now, I’m salaried, overtime eligible, and get the stink eye for having 15 minutes of OT per pay period. So, I work 40 a week, do my 8 to 5, and take every bit of time off I earn. They only want to pay me for 40, that’s what I’ll work.

Going over and above for the company doesn’t mean jack shit anymore. My mental and physical health, my time with the family, time for hobbies, etc, is more important than killing my self for a company that will replace me and the drop of a hat.
 
84 hours a week is my normal though if I don't pick up shifts I work 14 days on and 14 off or 21 on and 21 off. Throw in a scheduled down day and something taking a crap and it'll push 90 hours. I'm currently on my 11th of 20 Saturdays in a row so it has it's perks.
 
sorry
you are not doing ot, you are running your own business.
you are not getting paid. you can hire people to work for you.
This + am an owner.

Because I'm stubborn and weird, monday I'll work the longest, and cut an hour off each day from there to set the tone for the week. So, mondays are typically 12-16 hours, Tuesday is 11, wed a 10 etc etc.

Longest hours on a 2 week paycheck about 170 some odd hours. Crew with no girlfriends or wives to deal with, tight knit + pot + production homes.

Lots of fun, little money.
 
Salary. I had a Manager who firmly believed in 15/7/2. 15 hours at work, 2 hours for physical fitness and 7 hours for anything else... 7 days per week.

Yeah... that was the US Army, deployed to Iraq for 15 months. The "Manager" was the Battalion Commander, fishing for his bird. Eating, hygiene, communicating with family, walking to/from duty locations, and sleeping all fell into the 7. That meant 119 hours per week for 65 weeks straight, with only a 2 week R&R in the middle. Fucking brutal.
 
A little over 100 for me. We took 2 days off every third week. We worked 12 to 16 hours each day. Job was a giant retaining wall is SE DC with big liquidated damages and we were behind schedule. This was in the late 90s and I was an intern for a construction company. The PM bumped my rate from $10/hr to $15/hr, plus I was getting $40/day per diem. Fuck yeah, I loved every second of it, project was cool as shit and I was knocking down a bit over $2k a week as a broke ass college kid with zero expenses. That is when I made the switch to bud light in lieu of the beast, I was rich.

I am sure I have done more than 100 a few times since fixing fuckups and getting big projects designed or bid but being salary I don’t bother keeping track.
 
I guess I work for myself at the moment
so that means 168 hr weeks at $0 an hour


I'll fuck you right in your commie pooper, if you want

I hear @DWTs a-hole is prettier and smells like roses, you dont want mine trust me :flipoff2:
 
Probably 70 was my "best" working at our local Foundry. 4 10's through the week and Friday through Sunday was our scheduled maintenance and rebuild days to minimize production. I have only done a few 16-17hr days and i gotta say that was not fun. As i've progressed through our company and getting paid more, i have been working less and less. Going from 400hrs of OT a year working as much as i can to last year it was right about 110. After this first quarter of the year, i clocked in a big ole 1.2 hours of OT so far and Im doubting ill see a big increase.

What i'm noticing not only from the board here but every old timer you talk to, work less and spend more time doing the things you love.
 
114 hours in a week. Included a stint 37 hours long clocked in. During a month where I clocked about 405 to 415 hours.

I work for a large farm, it was harvest, and we were harvesting 100 miles away from home. Balls to the wall.
 
114 hours in a week. Included a stint 37 hours long clocked in. During a month where I clocked about 405 to 415 hours.

I work for a large farm, it was harvest, and we were harvesting 100 miles away from home. Balls to the wall.

thats called slavery, ya cotton picker :flipoff2:
 
Overtime is just more money for .gov. ...
With logic like that, You must be the same guy who thinks tax deductions are the same as cash at a 1:1 ration too aren't you??? ( hint at the highest tax bracket $1 in deduction saves worth 37-45 cents depending on state income tax situation)

earning 50% more /hr does result in more taxes taken out, but at the end of the year your tax liability is reconciled to the total amount you made. and you're credited back Overage on the tax witholding.
 
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Probably when we did America's Got Talent followed up by a UFC fight after 4 days of AGT. Somewhere around 70 hours. Did get some naps on the clock tho, and food was catered so there was plenty of coffee.
 
You're the same guy who thinks tax deductions are the same as cash at a 1:1 ration too aren't you???

earning 50% more /hr does result in more taxes taken out, but at the end of the year your tax liability is reconciled to the total amount you made.
Yes, on everything you made including non-OT pay.
 
I did 112 hours in one week one time a long ago, had to overhaul a 6V92 in a coastal rescue boat, longest job was in a cruise boat 30 hours straight to fix an 8V71 that had spilled antifreeze in the crankcase, fucked up position to work in, fucked up situation all in all, homemade stuff all over with a strange conversion of engine and cooling system made a complete mess... That was when I decided to quit being a marine mechanic. Now I am 46 years old, keep telling myself and the wife I am done with overtime, but still I had 2 hours last friday, 7 on saturday and 7 on sunday... But, it's enough, I will stay home next weekend. Maybe...
 
65 hours of OT in one week is my best. It was on a fire, 15 hour days for 14 days staright.
 
3.5 months straight of no days off and 100+ hour work weeks. Worked my normal 8-5 IT/Computer monkey job (actually 6:30-7 with commute) and built 3 SEMA cars + some other items for the 2017 year show. 57 BelAir (full frame off), 69 ElCamino (full frame off), 73 C10 (SBC to LS swap), 56 BelAir (EFI Install), 55 Chevy Wagon (500HP LS Motor build). Was a shitload to pull off and I think I'm still tired 4 years later.
 
i did a couple weeks of 14hr days 7 days a week, so 98hrs a week


but the kicker was the 1.5-2hr drive in and the 2-2.5hr drive home :homer:
 
Maybe 80 hours; but 16 of that was in business, or first class flying to Japan, Korea or South Africa.
 
Williston. Normal week was 70-84 hrs, 21 on 10 off. We pulled 120 for several rotations working on a man camp that we were also living at. So no drive time, and meals were at the cafeteria. It wasn't bad since we didn't have to work out eating or commuting. Sun up to sun down, for the summer.
 
Salary. Was a lot of 100+ hour weeks for 7 months straight while working out of state. Now on a different project. Still a minimum of 60 hrs a week Which is a hell of a lot better but still shitty to think about.
 
how does that even pencil out?
100mi one-way is one hell of a haul
We have remote grain bins. Grain gets harvested and put in bins at those fields. Go down, work 16 to 18 hours days until its done, stay in a hotel at night, rinse and repeat until its all done. As far as getting the equipment there, we just drive it on the road.

Contract buyers do their own trucking and get the grain out of the bins. We just keep a transfer conveyor there for them to use.
 
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