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Still having to go to work with not a thing to do

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chickennugget2 · 10/04/2020 19:39

I work for the nhs - admin. My usual service had died right down there's not a thing left to be done there although they've still got 1 member of staff there to mind the phones. I've been sent to another department where there was also nothing to do so I got sent somewhere else and the reason I had been sent there, the job is already being done by 4 people. I thought I'd give it a few more days, it has been a full week and I've done a maximum of 2 hours work in a 40 hour week. The offices are massively crowded, no such thing as social distancing and multiple different people in and out all day.

I've constantly informed managers I haven't got anything to do, is there anything I can be doing, but it's either a no or a 2 second task. It's been the longest few weeks of my life and I've just sat and sat bored out my brains it's absolutely soul destroying. My own manager isn't bothered, just tells me to speak to manager of service I'm at but I've done that more times than I can count. I need the money as I'm the only one bringing income at the moment but I'm risking my life to sit on my arse all day doing nothing. There's no other jobs out there in my area, I've looked. Where can I go from here before I lose the will to live?

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Tanfastic · 11/04/2020 22:35

Yep in the same position. Must be tons of us!

AnonymityIsGreat · 12/04/2020 00:10

Not NHS but I'm in the same position in retail. When I ask for work, my managers suggest that I go home unpaid, which would be great if I could pay my bills with time off unpaid.

I've been listening to an audiobook while pointlessly shuffling paperwork around as much as I can.

It's crazy that they'd rather pay us to hang around hundreds of customers for no good reason than draw up a rota for paid time off.

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