They don’t know what to do with me
I took a position at a company as an administrative assistant recently and well they don’t seem to know what to do with me. The company was recently bought by a bigger one in the UK and I am the first higher of the UK for their new subsidiary (my company). Most of the first interviews were with the UK by videochat and so I didn’t meet anyone until my first day. I was told this position was an entry-level bilingual administrative assistant but I’ve received very little to no training or feedback in the last three months.
During my very first meeting with the General Director I was told I was pretty much for diversity hire (my area recently put in place language laws and I am local so I speak the companies and the areas languages). Which fine, the job market is bad, I don’t care but truth is I am bored to tears.
The only constituent tasks I have is answering the phone or the door, keeping track of the hourly pay, once a month I organize bills and paying the delivery invoice every week. That’s it. Nothing else to fill my days. And it’s an in-person position.
The only time I will get instruction is when they give me a task and then ignored most of the time. I try to stretch out the task but even then it will take me about a day or two (if not one hour) to get it done. Most of days are completely empty. Ive tried to help with the office administration but the purchasing manager refuses to even let me put coffee out, she won’t tell me where the office supplies are so I can’t even get papers when it’s out and I am trying to create a task for myself and the CEO won’t let me administer even the basic email asking what the company does.
I’ve created task for myself: I keep a log of calls (daily, monthly and yearly) and contacts, I’ve created crafts on employees vacation and translated marketing information. Hell the other day one of the executive asked if I could figure out why his insurance didn’t work and then I was able to keep myself busy by figuring out the government regulation for the company cars.
I don’t want to complain because I know how hard the job market is right now but fuck I’m bored. There are days where I spend the whole day staring at a phone that doesn’t ring. I keep going to them once a day and asking if they need anything and it’s always “no”. The other day I cleaned the floor because I was so bored.
And also I don’t want to lose this job, but with nothing to do I find myself reaching for my phone more and more and I know that looks bad but what else am I suppose to do.
I am not sure if I am asking for advice or just venting. Is there any advice to be given in this situation.