Dukat
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I sit here for the best part of every day browsing FH and wikipedia simply so I dont go (more) insane.
I work at a company where I do things such as graphs, spreadsheets etc, getting data from external analysis and presenting it to the rest of the company, most of the data is weekly, so once its done one week its then done until next week.
Mostly I recieve around 15 peices of work a week, most of which take significantly less than 1 hour to do, three peices of work take around an hour, depending on complications which usually arise during processing. I work 20 hours a week, and spend atleast 10 of those hours without anything to do, more often than not its nearer 15 hours.
Great you say, you get paid to do nothing, but its not great, I get bored, intensely bored. When my boss is at work hes at a desk in the same room as my own, but hes not talkative, and theres no one else in the office, and because of my proximity to my boss I tend only to browse the net on FH or Wikipedia, so as not to push my luck, but he can see that I've got nothing to do, when I first started (over a year ago) I asked every 15 minutes if there is something to do, I could feel it was starting to piss the boss off, so I dont ask so often now, but I do periodicly ask for more work in general, with vague promises being made in return.
Dont get me wrong, its a good job in a way, I dont have to do much, I get paid well, I live within walking distance of my home and my hours allow me to train for the army. but being sat here with nothing to do and no one to talk to really is soul destroying.
What would you lot do? The obvious answer is have yet another serious talk with my boss, but I've tried it and continue to try, but the boss is also a friend of sorts out of work, and he's been good to me in the past, so I dont want to abuse that by having a go about something which possibly isnt entirely his fault.
I suspect the previous holder of my position didnt know much about computers or data manipulation, because she worked full time here doing only what I do.
I just wonder what the best course of action would be in a way, I sense that a few of the other people in the company are getting pissed off about it too because they're all busy, yet when I ask for work I get vague responses without any real answers.
I'm not really bothered in a way, its just irritating sometimes, Its ideal and yet its fart-boring. I guess staying here is the best bet, as other oppotunities for decent jobs in my area are limited (I live in a village in the middle of nowhere).
More of a rant than anything, I dont suppose there is much to do apart from continuing to try to talk to my boss about it, hopefully before too long I'll be in the army and things will be different.
I work at a company where I do things such as graphs, spreadsheets etc, getting data from external analysis and presenting it to the rest of the company, most of the data is weekly, so once its done one week its then done until next week.
Mostly I recieve around 15 peices of work a week, most of which take significantly less than 1 hour to do, three peices of work take around an hour, depending on complications which usually arise during processing. I work 20 hours a week, and spend atleast 10 of those hours without anything to do, more often than not its nearer 15 hours.
Great you say, you get paid to do nothing, but its not great, I get bored, intensely bored. When my boss is at work hes at a desk in the same room as my own, but hes not talkative, and theres no one else in the office, and because of my proximity to my boss I tend only to browse the net on FH or Wikipedia, so as not to push my luck, but he can see that I've got nothing to do, when I first started (over a year ago) I asked every 15 minutes if there is something to do, I could feel it was starting to piss the boss off, so I dont ask so often now, but I do periodicly ask for more work in general, with vague promises being made in return.
Dont get me wrong, its a good job in a way, I dont have to do much, I get paid well, I live within walking distance of my home and my hours allow me to train for the army. but being sat here with nothing to do and no one to talk to really is soul destroying.
What would you lot do? The obvious answer is have yet another serious talk with my boss, but I've tried it and continue to try, but the boss is also a friend of sorts out of work, and he's been good to me in the past, so I dont want to abuse that by having a go about something which possibly isnt entirely his fault.
I suspect the previous holder of my position didnt know much about computers or data manipulation, because she worked full time here doing only what I do.
I just wonder what the best course of action would be in a way, I sense that a few of the other people in the company are getting pissed off about it too because they're all busy, yet when I ask for work I get vague responses without any real answers.
I'm not really bothered in a way, its just irritating sometimes, Its ideal and yet its fart-boring. I guess staying here is the best bet, as other oppotunities for decent jobs in my area are limited (I live in a village in the middle of nowhere).
More of a rant than anything, I dont suppose there is much to do apart from continuing to try to talk to my boss about it, hopefully before too long I'll be in the army and things will be different.