I would use that time to look for a new job.

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I think sometimes the problem is the cyclical nature of the work we're doing. In my department, during budget or forecast time and when the accounting monthly cycle closes, we are all very busy. At those times, it would be hard to do everything with fewer employees. At other times, there's not much going on. So some weeks I'm working till midnight every night, but that's pretty unusual. And other weeks I'm struggling to fill even 30 of my 40 hours. I do search for other stuff to do, but a lot of organizations are territorial and political and if you do that too much, you end up invading someone else's turf, freaking people out and it's not worth the effort.

Who is "you people"?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not a lawyer but in the same boat. I am soooo bored out of my mind. Don't blame the employee, I blame managers who like to overhire and create unecessary beauracracy. I've worked for three agencies and only one was super busy, but that was a term job that ended.

At the same time, I have two friends in the private sector who sit and facebook surf/chat all day.

This is OP and this is part of the problem. I have actually told my supervisor we don't need to hire more attorneys but supervisor are afraid if they don't use the money in their budget for more hires, they will permanently lose the funding so they hire people we don't need and then exaggerate the work we are doing to the higher ups to make it seem like we are busy.

I had the same situation re: supervisors hiring too many people/internet surfing all day in a Federal government attorney position. In fact, the whole office could have been eliminated. But they kept hiring tons of people anyway. I left.

And "you people" voted in the last election for bigger government, bigger bigger bigger and bigger until the government swallows the country.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a lawyer but in the same boat. I am soooo bored out of my mind. Don't blame the employee, I blame managers who like to overhire and create unecessary beauracracy. I've worked for three agencies and only one was super busy, but that was a term job that ended.

At the same time, I have two friends in the private sector who sit and facebook surf/chat all day.

This is OP and this is part of the problem. I have actually told my supervisor we don't need to hire more attorneys but supervisor are afraid if they don't use the money in their budget for more hires, they will permanently lose the funding so they hire people we don't need and then exaggerate the work we are doing to the higher ups to make it seem like we are busy.

OMG, please stop posting, you are making me so ill.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a lawyer but in the same boat. I am soooo bored out of my mind. Don't blame the employee, I blame managers who like to overhire and create unecessary beauracracy. I've worked for three agencies and only one was super busy, but that was a term job that ended.

At the same time, I have two friends in the private sector who sit and facebook surf/chat all day.

This is OP and this is part of the problem. I have actually told my supervisor we don't need to hire more attorneys but supervisor are afraid if they don't use the money in their budget for more hires, they will permanently lose the funding so they hire people we don't need and then exaggerate the work we are doing to the higher ups to make it seem like we are busy.

I had the same situation re: supervisors hiring too many people/internet surfing all day in a Federal government attorney position. In fact, the whole office could have been eliminated. But they kept hiring tons of people anyway. I left.