Bored at work

[Mr Smiley]

I took a summer job at a company and for the last week and a half I have done maybe 8 hours worth of real work. I have NOTHING to do but sit at my computer. The time passes so slow and I am dying just waiting. I feel bad that I am basically getting paid to do nothing but I keep on telling myself "if they didn't need me, why did they hire me?"

I work four days a week 8 hours a day and my days usually consists of me opening up outlook and reading old emails, going on digg, and staring at my screen for hours at end. I would feel a lot better if they actually gave me work.

I think once they get me situated and I learn a few more things about the company and whatnot, I will be given more work but for now... I am so bored.

 

[neutralizer]

I know what you mean. How do you think I have so many posts?

 

[Running]

wow i know exactly how you feel. i can't believe i get paid for sitting around.

 

[Jhill]

Try playing pick up sticks with your butt cheeks. That will keep you occupied for awhile.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Mr Smiley
I took a summer job at a company and for the last week and a half I have done maybe 8 hours worth of real work. I have NOTHING to do but sit at my computer. The time passes so slow and I am dying just waiting. I feel bad that I am basically getting paid to do nothing but I keep on telling myself "if they didn't need me, why did they hire me?"

I work four days a week 8 hours a day and my days usually consists of me opening up outlook and reading old emails, going on digg, and staring at my screen for hours at end. I would feel a lot better if they actually gave me work.

I think once they get me situated and I learn a few more things about the company and whatnot, I will be given more work but for now... I am so bored.

I went from 300 posts to 3000 posts in one summer.

I had an IT job. I coded for maybe a good month or so, and then bam. Nothing to do. I begged my manager for stuff to do, and he would give me really easy tasks. One day I had to type a list of goals he had for the IT department that he needed to present in a meeting. It was a 2 column 1 page document in Word. That's it. Then he told me to make it aesthetically appealing (another 3 minute job) and then bam. That's all for ONE WHOLE DAY.

My manager then told me one day to break my coworker's computer so I could fix it. Great.

I spent a good few weeks on Anandtech GH and XtremeForums and DFI street asking prebuild questions for my rig. I then spent another 2 weeks OCing and checking up on my system at home during lunch and discussing tweaking stuff on forums.

I had so many freaking posts during July and August it was disturbing.

Oh and Harry Potter book was released that summer. I smuggled the book in to read, but that only lasted me like 3 days at most before boredom set in again.

Finally one of my IT coworkers came in to chat with me for a good hour or two each day during my last week there. It's clear he doesn't have that much to do, but as a permanent employee, he did have a lot more responsibilities than I did.

 

[Mr Smiley]

The work they want me to do is pretty easy also. Copying and pasting from excel documents and such.

I brought in a rubik's cube to hone in on my skills. I probably won't bring it again once I thought what it would look like to someone else if they happen to catch me playing with it(hands moving fast under desk...).

 

[imported_Imp]

Mildly comforting to know I'm not alone. My supervisor is off this week, so for three days, I did nothing on Monday. Tuesday went to a meeting where I mostly just listened cause everyone else is a supervisor/manager. Today, surfed some more and did 2 hours of real work. I gave up on taking the 'initiative' this year cause I asked for work over and over again the last summer, got nothing. Now, I'm so use to it, I will take their money as compensation for wasting my life.