Sounds like it to me too. But these are not great times to move job -- in the interim you should be using your time to learn new technologies which you could r

Sounds like it to me too. But these are not great times to move job -- in the interim you should be using your time to learn new technologies which you could reasonably explain might be useful to you current post, since you boss has not assigned you any new work. Make sure you keep records of all pertinent communications with him, so that you can demonstrate the latter if push comes to shove. Good luck!