We burned the candle from both ends during college, and during our professional lives many of us have been known to burn the midnight oil on occasion. Too many of us are guilty of taking our work home with us and fighting sleep with the glow of our computer screens. What's the latest you've stayed at the office or kept yourself up working?

Orlando Orlandini
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Havaianas
11:30. blech.
1probably only like 8/8:30...I get off @ 4:30
2I'm a total night owl, so probably 1 or 2 a.m. I'd much rather stay late than get up early.
33:30 am. I fell asleep on my desk hugging the stuffed version of our company mascot. lol.
411 p.m. or 11:30 p.m. but that was at my old job...
5I've NEVER stayed past 5:30pm (and I get off work at 5pm).
6About 1:15 AM. There was a book release at midnight.
7I get off work at 4:30 and the latest I have left ever is around 5:30-5:45 pm. I usually always leave at 4:30 on the dot though because right after work on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have a 5:15 class on the other side of town.
Damn MM 3:30 am?? They couldn't pay me enough to stay that late!
8around a little after midnight. we had a extreme rush job to finish up.
9I work for a startup so long hours are the norm. I get in at 8:45AM and have stayed as late as 2AM. And yes, I have to be at work by 9 the next morning.
10I don't stay late. I don't get paid overtime. Usually my boss compensates the office staff that works late with a day off. I'd rather get paid extra.
11Between 1 and 2 am.
12Midnight in the office, 1am at home.
Now I dont stay in the office past 9pm...I try to take a break, drive home, eat dinner, and log back on.
13at my current day job where i normally get off at 4:30-5:00, i've stayed til 8:30
14I've worked the notorious 36-hour medical resident's shift so often that I don't even remember.
152 or 3 am. I used to live in an apartment behind my office and I would just stay almost all night.
16Ugh, you people are all so lucky. I've had to stay all night and work straight through the next day. As in, I've gotten here at 5:30am, worked straight through the entire day, the whole night, and not left until 5:30pm the following evening, 36 hours later. And then I have to be back at 5:30 the next morning.
I generally work 14 hours days normally, but lately I've had at least one 24+ hour day/week. (And no, I'm not a physician, so this isn't normal for the profession.)
17Try staying until 4am...ah it was a drag a became a b-i-t-c-h passed 1am.
188:30PM! Only because some of the sales team didn't get their segment in on time for the marketing plan. And it sucked because EVERBODY had to stay and we had this OLD hag who didn't know what the crap she was doing, so WE ALL HAD TO SUFFER.
19I'm with Julie... I've had to pull all nighters and work through the next day. My job is pretty flexible most of the time and it isn't unheard of for me to be able to be done at 2PM on a Friday.
20I stayed at work several nights until about 2 a.m., only to be back at 4:30 a.m. to start over. It was miserable and a sign to get out of the job when it became a more frequent occurrance.
21I used to have to stay until 11 or midnight every week on the day we went to press at my old work. It was not pretty.
22I regularly have to work until 11 p.m. although I usually start at 1 p.m. on those nights. At my old job, I stayed out until 3 a.m. schmoozing with some big donors after our fundraising gala. I didn't really have a choice, but I really wanted to go home and sleep because it was at the end of a week of 14-hour days preparing for the gala.
23I regularly have to work until 11 p.m. although I usually start at 1 p.m. on those nights. At my old job, I stayed out until 3 a.m. schmoozing with some big donors after our fundraising gala. I didn't really have a choice, but I really wanted to go home and sleep because it was at the end of a week of 14-hour days preparing for the gala.
24I think 8 or 9PM is the latest I've ever stayed. A few of my coworkers have pulled all-nighters though, and one even slept on a blow up mattress in our lounge area.
25I keep reasonable office hours but my husband on occasion has to work 16-18 hour days for about a week when they've got a big project deadline.
26I've regularily done all nighters working for myself. Latest I've stayed for a boss was midnight.
27My husband on the other hand has ridiculous work hours... and I mean RIDICULOUS! He's worked 24-30 hours straight before, some of it hard labor. Not cool.
28I worked for a magazine publishing co. in NY and had to stay until 3am.
29You. Could Not. PAY ME ENOUGH MONEY TO SPEND ALL NIGHT AT WORK!! That's f-ing ridiculous. At my old job, there were a ton of workaholics that sort of competed with one another to see who could stay the latest and get the most OT. I think the latest I've stayed was til 7 and then my boss told me I could go home. I found out that she'd ended up staying until midnight and then I felt kinda bad that I didn't stay later to help her more.
Weekends, however, are the norm. I usually end up working about 20 hours+ some weekends. Especially during flu season.
30i have yet to work in a office-type setting, but in college i was a banquet server at an on-campus hotel and during spring break worked 10 days in a row of 14+ hours on my feet. worst was going in at 6am, finishing at 1am. absolutely insane, but after a certain point you get so goofy it doesn't even matter. spring breaks were always bonding experiences for those of us who stayed to work:)
31I stayed until 4am once. That was when my laptop was getting fixed. I usually go home & work instead of staying late.
32I had to work for 24 hours straight once. It was an important product rollout and some things couldn't be done until the night before.
33In college I worked afternoons/evenings, as late as 12:45am (when I had to catch the last bus home).
34Wow, you all have it so easy! I've stayed at work three days in a row, only stopping long enough to call a car to go to my apartment and my concierge to go into my apartment and give the driver a fresh suit for me to change into. And I'm salaried - no overtime.
35well last year at my 'new' job, i stayed until 4am one night/morning and thought that was the worst, and then there was a night that i didn't even go home...so that was the latest that i've ever stayed. working for more than 24 hours straight..that was NOT fun and i'm not a doctor so it shouldn't be expected of me.
36Around midnight.
37Got in at 6am, stayed till 1am, was back in the next day at 6am.
Most days I would get in at 8:30 and leave around 11, only because the parking garage would close down after 11 and I would have literally been trapped there.
Needless to say, I've since changed jobs.
38I work a regular 9-5 and the latest I've stayed is 6, and that happened only once. I'm pretty lucky.
396 am - but I am in theatre, so it can be a lot of late nights.
40ugh ditto all nighters 2x and at one point 16 hour days.
41As my hours can really ebb and flow its not a big thing for me to work until 10-11pm on occasion - but I also take most Tuesdays off to compensate. I work from home but I always have to be "on call" if the situation requires my aid. The keyword at my company is "flexibility" and we all try to respect each other's "non-work" lives as well as get the job done. Because of that, I hardly mind late days, I feel its a small sacrifice for independence and a (usually) 4-day workweek!
42lol, this is kind of funny to read. I work 7 am to between 1 and 3 am, 7 days a week. Political campaigns, it kind of goes with the territory. I do have an air mattress in an extra office with sheets and blankets and pillows, so I occaisionally get a nap during the day.
43Really, really late. Into the next morning. But we had a huge emergency to deal with, so I didn't mind too much. It was kind of exhilarating.
44I usually work from 8.30-5, but for a week or so I had to be at work from 8am-7.30pm, no lunch break. I usually always refuse to stay late, but in that case things needed to be done.
45It was actually nice to feel like I was getting stuff done, plus it was great to have a quiet office where I could do my work without being bothered by phone calls..
2am. It was not great. I've never had a 9-to-5 job, though the older I get the more I want to change that.
46In retail as the Assistant Manager during the busy Christmas season I stayed until 4am... horrifying.
When I worked in DC for the Dept. of the Interior... I stayed until 1am working on a press release during Hurricane Katrina.
At my office jobs...I think the lastest was only 9pm or so (thankfully!).
As an event coordinator....I've stayed up through the night working on a convention here in Vegas.
I need a vacation!
47Office jobs = non-govt. (EA/Contracts Specialist).
48I'm done at 4 and I'm out the door at 4, only exception is if I'm going on vacation I may stay to get a few things done before I leave.
49I work 10 hour days so i leave at 6:30 4 days a week. latest I have stayed was 8.
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