New employee gets forgotten after boss is fired, collects paycheck with no work to do for months: 'I'm riding the wave till it crests'

Imagine getting paid to do absolutely nothing. It's kind of the best case scenario, especially if you're coming from previous office environments where you're overworked, underpaid, and encouraged to go above and beyond with little reward.

That's the world that this author was coming from before he was hired by a large company. In what seemed at first like an unfortunate occurrence, the boss who hired the author was let go not long after the author was onboarded. It didn't take long after his now former boss's final day before the author realized that he had zero oversight. He played the role of a good employee for a little and asked around to see if he could take on any projects, but everyone assumed that the 15 minutes of actual work on his current plate was enough to last each week. That's when the author took the opportunity to reward himself for finding the perfect working environment—one where he got paid to do absolutely nothing.

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It's worth acknowledging that the author is fully aware that this dynamic cannot last forever, but he wants to ride the wave until it crests and until his superiors discover that he does basically nothing all day. What's even more amusing is that the author refuses to look for other jobs during this time. He just wants to go into his private office and chill all day. Doesn't sound too bad to me!
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