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What's your longest shift?
WTF is all this sleeping/on call nonsense.
The question is about the longest time you've spent at work and working (I'll give you loo breaks and time to grab a sandwich), not how long you went from starting a period of work and having sleep/being on call!
That said, I'll let Samuri off - that much time spent with any tech nerds would be hellish.
The question is about the longest time you've spent at work and working (I'll give you loo breaks and time to grab a sandwich),
What the hell is this loo breaks and bloody hell a chance to eat? 😯
Touché Drac….
sadexpunk - how's it going G? Used to work with you in Walsall 😉
Mark
Running a grain drying during a very wet summer I think I did a week of 18hr days.
After that when the boss cocked up the job planning and expected us to do a 14hr day in Hastings, drive back to Burton and be on Teeside at 9am the next morning. Spat the dummy and didn't go to Teeside.
More recently ended up doing red eye flights home so I was hitting 24-30hrs for some of them in total.
I ran a continuous 36 hour event for work, then was bundled into a car to the airport as it ended so I could fly to a conference in the US, so roughly 50 hours awake. I couldn't sleep on the plane, got to my hotel room and collapsed for 16 hours face down with my clothes on. My head looked kind of like a potato when I woke up.
Are you actually safe doing your job at the end of these marathon shifts?
No, that's why they stopped. Like others, as a junior doctor I worked Friday morning to Monday evening. In one job three of us shared the rota so when one was away you worked Monday morning through to Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning through to Thursday evening and then Friday morning through to Monday evening. Worst week for me was 133 hours or 127 if you excluded the time I was asleep.
I can tell you that I was so tired on one occasion that I saw the patient and did the right things ( I went back later and checked ) but when I came to write the notes I couldn't remember how to do joined up handwriting and after some very slow thought did the entry in block capitals.
My main aim was to fail safe and allow the seniors who had had sleep to sort the problems in the morning.
Nowadays, my longest period on call is 40 hours and that is availability with a couple of 10 hour days in amongst it. However, already had one night with no sleep this year which makes me unusually grumpy by late the following afternoon.