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Originally posted by Stormymystic: I did not work at a motel, but I did work the third shift at Waffle House (normal shift was 10 to 12 hours), and lived with my grandmother, who hated for anyone that was not her favorite grandchild to sleep past 7 in the morning, that was when I got home btw, after 2 months of very little sleep, I went to see my boyfriend, who is now my husband he was living with a frined of his. when I was there, I was so tired I could not hold my eyes open, so they gave my some amptriptline(sp?) and it had the oppisite effect they were going for...instead of knocking me out, it made me hyper, so I wound up not getting any sleep at all for almost a week, when I finally did crash, I slept for a very long time.

Hey Stormy. There was a Waffle House right next to the motel. That's where I ate every "night" (actually it was around 1am by the time I got over there) when I worked.

But for marathon work schedules, a friend of my dad's pulled one of the most brutal jobs I ever heard of. He was hired by a contractor to help lay carpet in a new strip mall. I don't remember how many shops were there, but they only had about 3 weeks to get several hundred yards of carpet laid - so they worked about 20 hours a day, 7 days a week for the entire 3 weeks to get the job done on time. His wife later told us that - when he got back home - he slept for 3 straight days (getting up just long enough to use the bathroom occasionally and then going right back to bed).

I can't even imagine that level of fautigue. When I took my current job, we had to do our annual physical inventory about 3 months after I started. NONE of the information was on a computer. The entire inventory was done manually (which meant we had to list the item#, description and location of every single thing we counted in addition to actually writing down the quantity). My supervisor got upset because the process was taking too long (DUH) and she wanted to know WHEN the Inventory would be calculated and turned in. I told her I would stay at work round the clock until it was done. I ended up working about 44 straight hours to get it finished. That was 2 consecutive nights at work without sleep. I never even pulled 2 all-niters back to back in college. I went to work on Thursday morning and didn't get finished until around 4am on Saturday morning. When I got done, I went to an empty patient room and crawled into bed there at the hospital. Slept for about 4 hours, then got up and drove home - where I went BACK to bed until about 4pm that afternoon. [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img]