I've been doing contract work for the past 3 years and I've learnt to avoid such situations like the plague. At my last job I ran into the situation where I co

I've been doing contract work for the past 3 years and I've learnt to avoid such situations like the plague. At my last job I ran into the situation where I completed a project but my manager was lazy about asking for the next project. I don't like disturbing people so I only asked about the new project 3-4 times during a week and my manager always told me to have patience. At the end of that week she actually had a 2 week vacation planned so I ended up not doing any meaningfull work for 3 weeks. My manager had to sign my bill with detalied work. It just sucked making up "work" for 21 days and then billing for it but my manager signed off the work; 3 months later when the project rand into some delays my manager arranged a meeting where se stated that she feelt the project was running late because of my slacking off. Anyway, I'd never do that again -- I'd just email the manager about not having any work and clearly bill my time as "waiting for work".