To feel frustrated and embarrassed that I have no work to do at work?

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At my work we are all assigned onto specific accounts for our clients. We have weekly meetings every Monday where we all give a quick summary of our workload for the week. It means work can be redistributed across the team e.g. if someone is drowning in work they can have someone who has a quieter week pick up some of their work.

For the past few months my workload has been really light. I usually have maybe 15-20 hours of project work and that's all (bearing in mind I work 35 hours a week). We do timesheets too so our time has to be accounted for.

I feel really embarrassed turning up to these meetings with these huge chunks of free time. I feel redundant... Senior management is also in these meetings and I feel like it's a bit weird that most people have no free time available or maybe a couple of hours free and I'm regularly having 10+ hours/week free.

Have a proper meeting with your manager and ask to be assigned a new client as you feel bored and want a challenge.

Is there someone who always seems much busier than everyone else? Switch a client with them.

There's nothing worse than being quiet at work, some people would like it but I find the day drags and I absolutely hate that

The last week I've been pretty quiet at work, just slowly ticking over, I'd much rather be busy. Normally I have lots to do but I'm in the motor industry and sale seem to have slowed

A salesman said yesterday he's normally sold 14-15 cars at this point in the month, he's sold four. I'd speak to a manager and see if you can take on some more work but be careful it doesn't backfire

I did this for years. My boss was a control freak and constantly gave me work but then took it back because he wanted to do everything himself. I was good at my job and always got really positive feedback from the senior management team and colleagues, so it's not like I was crap and that's why he had to do my work. It was such a weird way to work. I spoke to my boss about it all the time but he was really bad at managing staff, and in the end he just started cancelling appraisals and 1-2-1 meetings so he didn't have to deal with anyone's problems.

I found stuff to do here and there and took my own initiative and took some work off others, but in the end I pissed around browsing the internet and chatting with other colleagues who also had no work to do. Then I left because it never got better and I realised I don't give a monkeys about my job or the company anymore.

No real advice apart from try to raise it as much as possible OP. If you've been there 6 months maybe you just started at a quieter time and it will pick up. If it doesn't improve I would probably start to look for a new job.