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Have a friend this kinda happened to. He joined a company as a consultant. Right before starting, the team he was assigned to got dismantled. They still wanted

Have a friend this kinda happened to. He joined a company as a consultant. Right before starting, the team he was assigned to got dismantled. They still wanted him for a new team/project about to start. That of course got delayed and delayed, so he had no team or tasks assigned to him for months. And it's not like he was hiding. He never got access cards etc, so he had to ask the boss each morning to come and let him in. Then said he still didn't have a project or anyone ordering access for him. Then sat as his desk all day and went home.

registeredcorn 4y ago
I had something vaguely similar to this happen to me. I was working in a secure building and for whatever reason, it took them weeks to get me basic account access to their network. I wasn't even permitted to enter the area I would be working in until everything else was all setup. So, every morning I would show up, be escorted to the break room, wait around for someone in my department to stop in and say Hi, then mention "Yeah, it's still not done yet." I would then sit there and watch TV (CNN or Fox, depending on who was hiding the remote) in a break room for the remainder of the day, and eventually be escorted back out of the building. It wouldn't have been so bad if I was at least allowed to bring in a book to read or a phone to play some music, or anything, but no outside material was allowed unless you had some special work-related reason. I must have read the introductory booklet pamphlet thing they gave to me about 100 times. It was like 20 pages long. I could recite some of the pages word for word for about a year after the fact. The worst part was that some employees were really set in their ways and would come around at the same time every day, down to the minute. After a day or two of me rotting in the cheap plastic chair, counting the seconds until I could go, they would just say something like, "Still nothing, huh!?" "Yep..." "Ha! Good luck with that!" Day, after day, after day. After day.

registeredcorn 4y ago

I had something vaguely similar to this happen to me. I was working in a secure building and for whatever reason, it took them weeks to get me basic account access to their network. I wasn't even permitted to enter the area I would be working in until everything else was all setup. So, every morning I would show up, be escorted to the break room, wait around for someone in my department to stop in and say Hi, then mention "Yeah, it's still not done yet." I would then sit there and watch TV (CNN or Fox, depending on who was hiding the remote) in a break room for the remainder of the day, and eventually be escorted back out of the building. It wouldn't have been so bad if I was at least allowed to bring in a book to read or a phone to play some music, or anything, but no outside material was allowed unless you had some special work-related reason. I must have read the introductory booklet pamphlet thing they gave to me about 100 times. It was like 20 pages long. I could recite some of the pages word for word for about a year after the fact. The worst part was that some employees were really set in their ways and would come around at the same time every day, down to the minute. After a day or two of me rotting in the cheap plastic chair, counting the seconds until I could go, they would just say something like, "Still nothing, huh!?" "Yep..." "Ha! Good luck with that!" Day, after day, after day. After day.