I have nothing to do. It's grating on my conscience
I'll preface this rant by saying that this is an extremely privileged position to be in. I work in Health, specifically something related to Aged Care as an allied health.
Used to work in a busy hospital but transferred jobs to something that I could only describe as a glorified admin role. I went from being swarmed in work to finishing whatever task I have by 8:30 AM. And it's killing me.
I'm paid the same amount since I'm on an award, and I cannot believe that taxpayer money is being wasted paying someone 100k+ to do nothing all day. I can't even ask for more work because we can't take any more clients due to no funding.
And yet, there is this obsession about looking busy in the office; where my coworkers are just typing, erasing. And typing again while looking at their phones from time to time. Any time any newcomer asked about why we have so much free time, the seniors would do their hardest to convince them that we actually are very busy. I've never seen so much effort being spent on trying to be busy rather than doing a job.
This is happening at the same time that other departments in health are screaming for more workers. I'm at the point where I feel guilty leaving my old workplace. I want to change jobs again, but nothing suitable is coming up yet...