What would you do at work if you had nothing to do?

[DancingTurtle]

This is me tomorrow, 9 'til 4. I have access to an office where I can be on my own and would have about 2 seconds warning of someone coming in.

Just been told my project won’t be starting on time. Gutted. I actually contemplated buying a bottle of vodka for my desk drawer.

No job opportunities on the horizon. Have spent the morning clearing out a stationery cupboard (I sharpened all of the pencils) and reading my book.

I had a quiet week the other week OP and I ended up sorting all of my personal finances out. I checked my pension statements, did some research on investments and moved some investment strategies around, made a budgeting spreadsheet etc.

Are there online forums for your niche area of knowledge? What about reading and/or contributing to those?

Yeah, and I used to be pretty active on them but I’m over it now. They rehash the same issues and solutions…

Still here, still job hunting. Initially I was only getting long distance, wfh vacancies and then realised I really didn’t want to return to that (I did it for ten years on the 2010s) so pulled out.

My work have decided to start doing annual Performance Reviews, so I’m looking forward to seeing how that unfolds. I haven’t seen either of my line managers for about three weeks now.

Good luck with vacancies. I have recently started a new leadership apprenticeship precisely for this reason, and my life is suddenly very full

Still stuck here. Finding the job market very, very slow.

I have had a change in office for some of the week and now have greater privacy on those days. I do crosswords online and I watch documentaries I download on to my phone. Wednesdays I “work from home” but don’t have any work to do so I am redecorating our living room and then I’ll move on to a garden project.

We had appraisals (delayed until January) and whilst I was as positive as possible I was also honest about how I was feeling (e.g. often isolated, ready for more responsibilities… nothing came of it).