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I had that happen a couple years ago (probably 5 or 6 IIRC). I was working at a bank's consulting company (sort of the bank's own tech outsourcing company, but they also did projects for other external companies). I was in an insurance project which closed down, so they moved me to another office and told me to await for a new assignment, which didn't arrive until 5 months later (and by then I was so burned out of doing nothing I just changed companies). At the beginning I'd come to the office, grab a quick coffee and started emailing my manager and trying to get something to do, but eventually, since the response was always to continue waiting, I stopped doing that. I started coming in late, leaving early, "working from home" on Fridays... nobody would check on me, nobody really knew me in the office, so basically I did nothing for the entire 5 months. I probably stayed that long because the three first months were summer months, so it was pretty useful to do no work and enjoy summer, but as soon as winter came back I started to get burned out. I believe the issue is that they sorted me out on the first day in that office as one of the new hires, but I had been with the company for over 3 years at that point, so I guess the system messed up. They gave me a non-platformed computer (IIRC it had a stock Windows 7 install, no bank platforming at all), so I quickly set up my private VPN and routed all traffic over there so I could do anything over the Internet without they watching (which I don't think they did anyways). Since this was in IT, using VPNs wasn't something that weird, so it worked. I'll just say, doing nothing is cool for the first maybe the first two months, after that it becomes the worst thing ever. |