When I was still in the screen printing business there were a few times of the year that it would turn into "hell week". I specialized in sporting goods and apparel. My job was applying the names and numbers to jerseys. When little league baseball and softball season would roll around I would put in 12 hour days regularly for about two weeks. The shitty part was that we served a lot of districts with their equipment and uniforms and they all started pretty much the same date, so there was definitely a crunch time when it came to getting their orders out on time.
Then there was league soccer, track and field, football, and whatever else they could throw in the mix...
I don't miss those stress filled days!