Have you ever worked somewhere and had nothing to do????

I was working with an automotive company several years ago and I was the receptionist. Answering the phones, filing, paying bills etc. I worked there for two weeks and each day I went in I would bring something for me to do. I was so bored and there was nothing ever to do. I always had the filing and everything done within an hour. (I took my sweet time as well). I had to quit the job because I was too bored and was always falling asleep. I am the type of person if I have nothing to do I get bored and become irrated that I don't want to do it anymore.

Thats a good question. I would probably have done the same thing you did but thats not too helpful is it? I worked the night shift in our local hospital years back on the geriatric floor and the charge nurse did all the shots so all I had to do was chart and give meds at certain hours plus take vitals once during the shift. I did do a lot of readingin between things.

I had a temp job where I did data entry. I would often finished early, but I wasn't allowed to leave until the supervisor said I could. But, the problem was that the supervisor left over an hour before I did. And, I never knew if I was going to be done early or not. So, I would just sit there and do nothing for an hour or two. I would ask around for other work, but half the office would be gone and no one had anything. The thing is, I was worried about someone complaining to the agency that I wasn't working. I tried to get them to adjust my hours, but they said they couldn't. So, I was in a catch 22 situation there.

I've been where you are. It's awful to have nothing to do at work but just stand or sit there and wait for something to do. In those situations I usually try to think, find some busy work (cleaning or like) or even sit down and write out some stuff. A letter, my thoughts, a song, a poem, you name it. Hope that helps.

Most of the s/w engg would not have anything to do most of the times. I'm one of them.

I've been that awful situation before. It's hard to pretend working (to justify the consultant fee) while there are absolutely no work at all. Reading books and surfing the net were not allowed in my situation. My experience will be: 1) Don't look at the clock. The more anxious you are, the more slowly the clock will move. 2) Try to learn anything from your company, the organization, the nature of its business, history and so on. you may find something interesting (e.g. one board member is a former senator, etc). 3) I don't know what the manager thinks about reading your own books at work. Try not showing people that you are doing non work-related things.

This has happened to me when I was doing administrative functions. I was about to give up just looking for on the Internet then. Good thing I got a good break and became so darn busy that I had to come in at 7am and go home at 2am. At the moment, I know now what to do when there is not work. myLot! Haha. Isn't it obvious I'm doing much of that right now. So, there.

That sounds a little like my old job. The usual tasks tended to be done quickly and then the rest wasn't much of anything outside of answering phonecalls. I didn't have the luxery of a book or anything though, so I tended just to have a look at the company's databases and documents, seeing what possible improvements I could make. Anything to avoid total boredom.

yes my freind there are many jobs like that specially in my country when u work at my country u will find nothing to do at all so if u worked for an hour and a half u will worl zero time at the jobs in my country

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