Fourteen hours. Three-hundred plus customers. Five new trainees. One computer crash. No break.
On the bright side, it could have been much worse...
And now -- Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
you're studliness leaves wakes of fear rippling through future challenges, godric.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Sleep is good. Yes indeedee. Posted by Emperor Palpatine (Member # 3544) on :
Aren't there regulations that say you should have gotten a break? People that are employed at the company I work at have been getting 500 dollar settlements from a class action suit because of this.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
There are many longer days ahead for most of us.
My longest day? Twenty four-plus hours. I wrote a new program to control a herd of robot vehicles that deliver huge rolls of newsprint to the printing presses of a large newspaper company in New York. The program wasn't perfect, and I had to stay and baby-sit the robots until all the kinks were worked out. You cannot stop the presses, and the presses cannot run out of paper. The union boys have murder in their hearts for anyone who upsets the fine balance. The good news is that beyond twenty four hours, you stop counting the hours because your mind is gone, and to be murdered becomes a comforting thought.
There are folks who pull 24-hour stints all the time, sometimes with lives on the line. It’s just a part of life that makes you appreciate down-time, when it finally comes, even more.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
At one of my earliest jobs, 31hours straight. Machinery broke down nearing my quitting time, and I was pressganged as a replacement machine. It took awhile before anybody asked how many hours I'd been working.
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Posted by BlueJacsFan (Member # 6590) on :
Mine was about 25 1/2, but at least there was a lunch break in there somewhere. At 3:30 on a Friday afternoon , I started getting errors that datafiles for one of my databases was missing. Of course, the company wasn't taking regular backups, but were at least exporting the data nightly. Long story short, we were able to recover, but not until 10:30 Saturday morning.
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
Wow, you guys are cool -- or maybe just work-a-holics.
And yes, I could have taken a break, but I didn't voluntarily because my crew had less than a week's experience combined and I didn't really need one. My boss is giving me a nice bonus as well, as I also had to work all day (13 hours) Sunday.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
Guys, I hate to burst your bubble(s), but the longest day is still two weeks ahead of us.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
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, I started getting errors that datafiles for one of my databases was missing. Of course, the company wasn't taking regular backups, but were at least exporting the data nightly. Long story short, we were able to recover, but not until 10:30 Saturday morning.