What has been the longest shift you have done?

[Geano]

I did 9 till 9 once , never again

I'm in marketing and once, memorably, my boss was hospitalized, which meant I had to cover my event in Geneva and his in London the following day. Was up at 5am Monday to get the flight to Geneva, worked from landing until the event finished at midnight. Four hours' sleep, up at 4am to get a flight back to London leaving at 7am, and then working until 9pm Tuesday evening - so 36 hours 'on call' in 40.

I left after that when I didn't qualify for a bonus that year as I hadn't apparently gone 'above and beyond'.

25 hours - theatre nurse on call

Maybe 9 hours. Not long. All my jobs have been fairly standard length hours thankfully.
My friend used to work pub jobs and was always expected to do 12 hour or more shifts with no breaks. She said no one even asked for breaks and it was frowned upon, made me angry for her.

On longhaul flights, the duty day might be 13 hours but we would get a couple of hours sleep in the crew rest bunks.

I think that the low cost / charter airlines crew have it worse - doing a 13 hour duty day on a there and back with no private rest break and no nice hotel to go to. Longhaul is tiring and many trips are only 24 hours downtoute these days but I do miss the going to foreign places and the hotels.

42 hours
Also have done a few 24 hour shifts in my time. So glad to be in a standard office job that doesn't require working back to back shifts!

I used to do from 3pm til 4am every week.

In a hotel. It was supposed to be 3-12 but by the time the guests had gone to bed and we'd cleared up it was at least 4am.

did 9 till 9 once , never again

Do you mean am-pm?

12 hours isn't really that unusual for a shift in many jobs.

If you mean 24 hours then of course it's ridiculous

I normally do 10 hour shifts but have been known to do an extra 2-3 hours on top, not regularly though, maybe once a month or so.

regular hours were 12 hours. Exploited youth training scheme.
Then once a month would be 16 hours.

As a nurse 7am - 10pm with no break!

8am-midnight too many times when I worked in a fast food restaurant so 16 hours is the longest. Those were the days!

33 hours straight as a trainee solicitor.

9-9? I've done 22 hours before although that's unusual. I don't see 12 hour shifts as anything out of the ordinary at all.

12 hour shifts were the norm in my first career (broadcasting engineer).

We did a few outside broadcasts where I pretty much worked 16 hours with very short loo/fag/coffee/bite of sandwich breaks, slept for 4 hours and did it again.

I had energy in my youth! Not now. I work 7 hours a day with 30 min break and that’s more than enough.

Started 7 pm worked through til 7.30 am had a 2 hr break back in 9.30 for training til 1 pm then 5 hours off until 6 pm til 7-30 am.
Company expected that of me every thursday night through til sat morn. As a complete norm.
I lasted just over a year in that role.

Mostly 12/13 hour shifts (night shift care work) but 20 years ago I worked in hospitality with an agency and it ended up being a 21 hour shift. Ugh.

76 hours, probably about 14 of those I was asleep though. A residential setting for LAAC. My normal shift is 24 hours which is supposed to have an 8 hour sleepover, but sleep time varies hugely due to the nature of the setting and the role.

I'm thoroughly enjoying MAT leave

30hrs
No sleep
Started iffcas a 12 he day shift. Night staff couldn't get in due to snow so are yet the next 12 hours...then morning shift had trouble getting in too
I was 17 and a lot more stamminer then

7.00 am to 19.30

24 hours with no break. Ate chocolate standing up to keep going. Would still do this fairly regularly.

DH once did 6-6 in retail near Xmas, then their shutters wouldn't go down so they needed security overnight. He looks like a bouncer and the offered him double pay to do the night so he did it through til 6 am, then he started his normal retail shift. He didn't make it through his full shift before calling quits. Tbh he'd done 30 hours straight, fair effort really!

Like @spockster up thread as a junior doctor in the 90's one in three weekends started at 8am Saturday straight through to 6pm Monday.. Often with literally no sleep.
Then back in Tuesday to work through to Wed evening... Rinse and repeat.
Honestly it was the worse year of my life

I've never understood the hell that they put junior doctors though. And then give them the most important tasks in the world to perform!! What is the logic!?

I once did an entire weekend at an airport due to a serious unannounced airline strike. I remember leaving my car there in the wee small hours of Monday morning- taking a taxi and not speaking to a soul until i was woken by a call to see if I would be ok for the morning (4am start) on the Tuesday.
I still shudder if I see the AirFrance logo......

Roughly 26 hours, while pregnant. Luckily it was a one-off situation.