As I said in my profile, I work for a major US media company (traditional and new media). I was hired for a specific project and after significant early success selling this product, new management of the company stopped any more sales to stabilize the product and decide how to move forward. That was six months ago. Basically, I've been told no decision has been made, not to sell anything else until I hear differently, but don't tell anybody that I've already sold that we are no longer selling the product. Nice, huh?
So my days consist of coming to my office, sitting at the computer, reading Twitter (I now follow 365 feeds since all this started) and waiting to hear something. Occasionally I hear from the people who I've already sold and I stall, make up reasons we're not moving forward and take a long time to return emails and voicemails. I occasionally see my boss and have stopped asking him for direction because the answer is always "I don't have any" direction for you. Now when I see him, I say hello, he says hello and asks how I am and that's it. All I can think is that his supervisor has no idea my position exists and therefore I am still here.
I told my wife that it's like being the George Costanza working for the Yankees. I could sleep under my desk and nobody would notice. I'm not really complaining, I am getting paid. But when you hear people talk about wasteful and inefficient bureaucracies and think there are no real world examples, I am a living breathing example in the real world.
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