to move job after 4 months

[Ceci03]

So I started in a new job back in November, and it's just been very disappointing. A lot of the time there hasn't been much for me to do. Often I wonder why they employed me as with a supervisor, team leader, and part-time person (same as me), they seem to have everything covered between them. Like if I go to send an email, or prepare a document one of the others has already done it. The team leader has given me a few specific tasks to do, but very basic and I've had them done very quickly. I'm really disappointed as it sounded like a great job on paper. To me it seems like they got me to cover the part time person when she is not there. Although she could actually get all the work done in her 3 days. And I;m left twiddling my thumbs then on thurs and fri. There are other jobs coming up in the same place, but would I be 'chancing my arm' applying for them. I had an 'in year review' on Friday, and the team leader told me this is probably the busiest it gets, and it will be very quiet again around easter. I am trying to learn systems and procedures, but it's hard learning them in theory. It's only when it comes to actually doing tasks I find that you really get to know a system. Otherwise it just goes in one ear and out the other. Maybe I should just stay put for a year, but am so bored. WWYD. I have tried saying it to the team leader and the supervisor, but I think they're a bit worried about their own work load, even though they complain about being busy they don't delegate.

And I forgot, another person has just been appointed, a full-time person, higher than both the team leader and supervisor, and then there is another manager higher up again, who likes to come along and basically be disruptive in meetings, criticse and complain even though she keeps saying she needs to 'step back', like last THur she came to a meeting that she had had no involvement in the preparation of, she was invited as a courtesy, but when she came she completely took over, spoke over everyone. It seems like a 'bad team'.

You are being paid doing hardly nothing enjoy it and look around

I left a job for similar reasons

Manager held on to work and then buggered off to meetings leaving 3 of us without tasks and we didn’t even have our own ‘work’

Then she’d complain about stuff not being done

I left a job after 7 weeks once for very similar reasons.

You know when it's not right and there's nothing worse than endlessly being at a loose end, makes for an incredibly slow week.

Ah crap that sounds soul destroying !
How do you get through the day? I'd use the time to search and apply for an alternative

I’m doing it! On paper my job looks amazing, in reality it’s boring, there is nothing to do and it is soul destroying being in a job where there is nothing to do, being paid to do nothing is awful, the days drag, the systems are archaic and I can’t stand it anymore!
I’ve managed to secure myself a new role after ten weeks of being there and I cannot wait to leave!

Same here OP but after 5 months of taking things from other people when they were snowed under or asking if anyone needed help with anything, I was "head hunted" by the manager of the dept above me and secured a promotion, I'm now up to my eyes in work but at least feeling valued at work. In theory, having not much to do at work is great but the reality is, it's very, very boring and was staring to affect my MH. I'd look around or apply for one of the jobs within if you like the sound of them.