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[jimbobmccoy]

I now know how he feels.

Been up for 24 hours now, and at work for 21 of those.

I have yet to come across the attractive women though, and unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how to look at it) have not blown anything up either.

It's more boring than the tv makes out.

[TheBoy]

Longest I've ever done, officially, at work without sleep, is Friday 8am until Monday pm. Although unofficially, the guy I was working with and I did manage a couple of 1hr 'catnaps' on the front lawn outside the building on Saturday pm.  Actually, we did this several weeks running as part of the Y2K stuff, upgrading KnitWare (Novell NetWare/IntranetWare).

Longest I've ever been at work, solid, without stopping, is 36hrs (and just after I got home from a days work - not even got the kettle on), after an NT4 cluster self destructed, and apparently it was mega important...  ...running a online mag for women .  We did toy with a handover to someone else, but then realised we were the only 2 capable of fixing it (which is why Dave called me out, as he wasn't too sure himself)

[tunnie]

hours wise only done fairly standard, although I have worked 16 days straight, without a day off.

[jimbobmccoy]

The odd thing is, now I've actually got a few hours I can sleep in, I don't feel that tired!!!!

I've to be back by 130 so some ps3 and a fry up shall pass the time.

From past experience it's surprising how long you can get by on just 40 minute cat naps.

[TheBoy]

The odd thing is, now I've actually got a few hours I can sleep in, I don't feel that tired!!!!

Quite common IME... ...although I suffer from insomnia anyway.

[pscocoa]

In 1991 I had a dispute with someone claiming £1.5 million when his claim was £50000. He hired City lawyers who bombarded our lawyers with legal proceedings leading towards an arbitration. Our lawyers wanted £80000 to defend the case - so I did it myself. At one point just before the arbitration when the lawyers for the other side thought we would crumble, they submitted a lot of document discovery requests.  I went solid from 8am on a Wednesday morning to 8pm on the Thursday responding to everything and firing back a huge list of my own.

For the first time I then got a call to settle at £300,000 - I rejected. Then a £100,000 rejeced - then the bloke himself phoned me - following day we settled at £50,000.

[TheBoy]

hours wise only done fairly standard, although I have worked 16 days straight, without a day off.

Not quite the same as 7 days a week, start at 7am, get home (on days when you actually made it home) around 10pm, most weekends not making it home, from June 1998 until 24th Dec 1998 (as BT wanted their Y2K stuff completed before 1999) .  That was upgrading NT3.51 and NT4 servers, Netware 4.11, OS/2 Warp and MS-Mail to Y2K compliant versions, and rebuilding earlier versions to at least those standards.

That was hard work, yet immense fun, and a real challenge (realistically unachievable).  Probably the most enjoyable time I've had in my career.

There were just 2 of us doing it for our area (East Anglia to Aldershot, inc North and North West London (and oddly, Stone Staffordshire and Doclands, not sure why we had those in our area)), and we PM'd everything. Only help we had was a secretary was provided, who'd send emails, and do all the admin/officetosser tasks.

I do recall, around November-ish, she sent us a load of spreadsheet graphs, and one stood out...  ...a Windows domain with about 130 servers in, all that needed a complete rebuild, and the pie chart showed it clearly...   ...none started!  To this day, I'm still not quite sure how we did it, but shows what a close team (of 2, plus the admin girl who was purely office based) can achieve, and a vital life lesson (actually, lessons) learnt.



I passed out Christmas day.

[Gaffers]

My personal limit, while doing manual labour and some 'planning', was 67 hours non-stop.  At which point I started to hallucinate and do silly things.