I work a 4-10 hour day schedule, Monday thru Thursday, 6 am to 4 pm. I’m in my office on Mondays and work from home the rest of the week. My job is maintaining and updating the mapping systems for an electric utility company.
This past Wednesday I informed both my Supervisor and the department’s Work Coordinator that there was almost nothing in my work queue and asked for additional project work because I knew they were both going to be away for a business meeting yesterday (Thursday). Nothing was added to my queue. These are the only two people in the department who can assign or move work. Certain things will auto-assign but probably 80% has to be assigned by a person.
Yesterday morning arrived and there was nothing new in my queue. I finished the two items I had to work on and realized nothing new had come in. I messaged both people about 8:30 am to inform them I had nothing to do, and I was going to spend some time cleaning up the online document management system. When I had no work at 9:15 I emailed my Union Senior Steward to ask what to do. I was told that if I had no assigned work and had completed what filler work I could dredge up, I was fine to simply sit there and do nothing until the end of my shift or until I was assigned additional work.
Bottom line, I collected seven and a half hours of pay ($45+ per hour) for literally sitting on my ass. Part of ne feels bad about this. I like to be a productive employee and get work done. That’s how I keep my work queue much smaller than most of my coworkers. Part of me says “Screw them. They knew the issue ahead of time and didn’t do anything about it”.
Thoughts?
This past Wednesday I informed both my Supervisor and the department’s Work Coordinator that there was almost nothing in my work queue and asked for additional project work because I knew they were both going to be away for a business meeting yesterday (Thursday). Nothing was added to my queue. These are the only two people in the department who can assign or move work. Certain things will auto-assign but probably 80% has to be assigned by a person.
Yesterday morning arrived and there was nothing new in my queue. I finished the two items I had to work on and realized nothing new had come in. I messaged both people about 8:30 am to inform them I had nothing to do, and I was going to spend some time cleaning up the online document management system. When I had no work at 9:15 I emailed my Union Senior Steward to ask what to do. I was told that if I had no assigned work and had completed what filler work I could dredge up, I was fine to simply sit there and do nothing until the end of my shift or until I was assigned additional work.
Bottom line, I collected seven and a half hours of pay ($45+ per hour) for literally sitting on my ass. Part of ne feels bad about this. I like to be a productive employee and get work done. That’s how I keep my work queue much smaller than most of my coworkers. Part of me says “Screw them. They knew the issue ahead of time and didn’t do anything about it”.
Thoughts?