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[Andy B]

My nights are 15 hours though. 

[YZ250]

My nights are 15 hours though. 

I did shift work all of my working life and legally we had to have a clear 11 hours rest time between shifts, so a maximum shift of 13 hours.   
On some jobs you can sign away that right, but we were bound by the rules. 

[STEMO]

My nights are 15 hours though. 

I did shift work all of my working life and legally we had to have a clear 11 hours rest time between shifts, so a maximum shift of 13 hours.   
On some jobs you can sign away that right, but we were bound by the rules. 

When I did the 6-2, 2-10, 10-6 shifts, we were sometimes asked to cover for someone who hadn't turned up, so a 16 hour shift. You would get time and a half for the second 8 hours and, because you had to turn up again 8 hours later for your normal shift, time and a half again. You can manage it when you're young, I'd have no chance now.

[Olympia5776]

My nights are 15 hours though. 

I did shift work all of my working life and legally we had to have a clear 11 hours rest time between shifts, so a maximum shift of 13 hours.   
On some jobs you can sign away that right, but we were bound by the rules. 

When I did the 6-2, 2-10, 10-6 shifts, we were sometimes asked to cover for someone who hadn't turned up, so a 16 hour shift. You would get time and a half for the second 8 hours and, because you had to turn up again 8 hours later for your normal shift, time and a half again. You can manage it when you're young, I'd have no chance now.

Pah .....!
I trained and worked in the Steel Mill at Ravenscraig Steel Plant covering the same shift pattern as yourself for some years .
What you describe was a "doubler " where you stayed on to cover your absent relief . Also ,The rules were that you could "claim " the shift if he was over 60mins late .
That was a fairly common event in the 70's .
The more uncommon , but not unknown , was the " Ghoster " where if you were unlucky or lucky depending on your viewpoint , and your relief and the relief that followed did not turn up you had to stay on for 24 hours .
I had this occur twice in my years at the plant and indeed one of them followed two doublers in one week ......
I can vividly recall being awakend by two Police officers after a member of the public reported me slouched over the steering wheel after I fell asleep in a car park after stopping for an errand on the way home .
In the event of a Ghoster the management were by the third shift aware of your situation and you were given 24 hours off to recuperate .
Payment was time and a half for the 8-16 hours and double time for the 16-24 hours .
It was rough because my/our  responsibilities were the Process and Control Instrumentation over the Strip Mill and you could not just hide in a corner so by the end of the 24 hours you really were at a point of hallucinating .
Health and safety .........nah we never needed that mate ......

[Doctor Gollum]

My nights are 15 hours though. 

No point pissing about

From report to clear 13-15 hours is a typical day plus the four hours before to actually get up and in allowifor the M25s best efforts.

But most of my time has been 12 hour night shifts, often 20 days or more a month. Worst was summer 2006 which was 4 12 hour nights straight into a 36 hour overtime block. Probably wasn't legal then but you wouldn't get away with it nowadays.

That said bouncing around the world, we're limited to a rolling annual average of 900 duty hours a year which doesn't feel like very much

[Raeturbo]

About 6 years ago I did 13 night shifts in  row. Had 3 days off then did another 5.
Nearly bloody killed me. 

just 13 nights?  Many many years back, we regularly did 19 nights out of 21, had 2 nights off, ad infinitum for 3 or 4 months. Then the same again for the next couple of years. Of those 19 nights, 14 or 15 of them were 12 hours.

I don't do nights anymore though! 

                Pfff,,  luxury..  we used to get up two hours before we went to bed sweep motorway with twig …………..

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

You had a twig ? !  You lucky bastard. We had to use our tongues. 

[Raeturbo]

Yeah but twig was tied to our tongues with wire and rags up our arse to polish cats eyes on way🙈

[Rangie]

I used to love working nights , the most I ever worked in one stretch were 14, but retirement is so much better..👍

[TheBoy]

I’ve done a fair few 36+ hour shifts, unplanned obviously.  Generally I found once through that brick wall around the 36hr mark, you can keep going for about 60hrs before you just fall asleep where you stand.  Or start seeing very real things that aren’t really there

[TheBoy]

Not sure I could do it now, mind!

[Doctor Gollum]

Not sure I could do it now, mind!

Jetlag doesn't help with 15-16 hour days

[TheBoy]

The car app on her phone.  It says one of the tyres has a pressure problem.  Turns out it isn't lying.

FFS.

[YZ250]

Potholes again. More to the point, recently filled in pothole repairs that lasted less than a month.    I can only assume that the highways people have lost the skills to sort them or the product they are using is shite. 

Oh, and HS2 for flooding the road again. Not worth taking our cars for a wash as they’d be filthy again by the time I got home.

[countrywoman]

A big pothole that looks like it was caused by subsidence was filled about 2 months ago , great big mound of black crap shoved in it in a hump. They had to refill the leading edge last week as it was pulling out, I drive round it.