What to do if there is no work but there is 4 months left on my contract?
I was hired as a software engineer contractor to solve a particular problem in a big tech company. I feel like I've solved it, because there is less and less work coming my way, but there is still 4 months left in my contract. I've been working less and less hours to try to spread the workload to hopefully finish it right before my contract ends, but it doesn't seem like I can do it. My thinking was that if I finish my tasks quickly and efficiently, the big tech company will give me more cool work, but they don't give any cool assignments to me for some reason. I don't know what to do. Should I just come to work and stare at the screen doing nothing, collecting my money? The company is big and famous and has money, so they will probably not mind me doing it, but I am afraid I will go crazy. I mean, it's 8 hours per day for the next 4 months of just string at the computer screen. I don't want to pretend that I work, because I would feel guilty doing it. And I would not even know what to do to pretend well. My manager wants weekly report on what I've done. Should I write "Stared at the computer screen" or "Pretended that I worked"? I would feel weird and guilty writing this in my report.
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I was hired as a software engineer contractor to solve a particular problem in a big tech company. I feel like I've solved it, because there is less and less work coming my way, but there is still 4 months left in my contract. I've been working less and less hours to try to spread the workload to hopefully finish it right before my contract ends, but it doesn't seem like I can do it. My thinking was that if I finish my tasks quickly and efficiently, the big tech company will give me more cool work, but they don't give any cool assignments to me for some reason. I don't know what to do. Should I just come to work and stare at the screen doing nothing, collecting my money? The company is big and famous and has money, so they will probably not mind me doing it, but I am afraid I will go crazy. I mean, it's 8 hours per day for the next 4 months of just string at the computer screen. I don't want to pretend that I work, because I would feel guilty doing it. And I would not even know what to do to pretend well. My manager wants weekly report on what I've done. Should I write "Stared at the computer screen" or "Pretended that I worked"? I would feel weird and guilty writing this in my report.
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I was hired as a software engineer contractor to solve a particular problem in a big tech company. I feel like I've solved it, because there is less and less work coming my way, but there is still 4 months left in my contract. I've been working less and less hours to try to spread the workload to hopefully finish it right before my contract ends, but it doesn't seem like I can do it. My thinking was that if I finish my tasks quickly and efficiently, the big tech company will give me more cool work, but they don't give any cool assignments to me for some reason. I don't know what to do. Should I just come to work and stare at the screen doing nothing, collecting my money? The company is big and famous and has money, so they will probably not mind me doing it, but I am afraid I will go crazy. I mean, it's 8 hours per day for the next 4 months of just string at the computer screen. I don't want to pretend that I work, because I would feel guilty doing it. And I would not even know what to do to pretend well. My manager wants weekly report on what I've done. Should I write "Stared at the computer screen" or "Pretended that I worked"? I would feel weird and guilty writing this in my report.
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I was hired as a software engineer contractor to solve a particular problem in a big tech company. I feel like I've solved it, because there is less and less work coming my way, but there is still 4 months left in my contract. I've been working less and less hours to try to spread the workload to hopefully finish it right before my contract ends, but it doesn't seem like I can do it. My thinking was that if I finish my tasks quickly and efficiently, the big tech company will give me more cool work, but they don't give any cool assignments to me for some reason. I don't know what to do. Should I just come to work and stare at the screen doing nothing, collecting my money? The company is big and famous and has money, so they will probably not mind me doing it, but I am afraid I will go crazy. I mean, it's 8 hours per day for the next 4 months of just string at the computer screen. I don't want to pretend that I work, because I would feel guilty doing it. And I would not even know what to do to pretend well. My manager wants weekly report on what I've done. Should I write "Stared at the computer screen" or "Pretended that I worked"? I would feel weird and guilty writing this in my report.
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