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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, they all seem to be chatting. I've gone around and introduced myself since my supervisor clearly wasn't going to do it and I said to everyone "please let me know if I can assist with anything."  I really want to work... Seriously. I've been rearranging my desk, getting my accounts all set up because no one told me what accounts I needed or how to do that, reading every single policy and website related even marginally... Guess I'll keep bugging my supervisor until she makes time for me. [/quote]

What was your job description and what did your supervisor say in your hiring interview that you would be doing?  Are there skills that you could improve that would apply for your job?  Are there on-line tutorials for skills that would complement your skill-set to help you do your job?  Are there software packages that were in the job description that were "not required, but would be nice to have" that you could try to teach yourself to use?  Most federal agencies have some form of on-line training material, for example where everyone has to take the annual ethics, violence in the workplace, discrimation, etc courses.  Find out the address for the training site, get your user account for that and start browsing.  Most of them have hundreds of optional courses that can be taken, everything from technical courses, to supervisory or leadership training to personal improvement courses that you can read and take.  Also, through the training portal, you may also find that your agency has access to Books 24x7 which has some great on-topic and off-topic titles to read.  Both my agency and my wife's agency have access to Books 24x7 and in addition to technical resources, it also has courses on balancing work-life, handling stress, how to improve sleep, etc.  Lots of useful courses that can be accessed through the training portal.[/quote]

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