boss won’t give me tasks during notice period and I’m going crazy. what do I do? /u/kay000000 CSCQ protests reddit

so I told my boss last week that I’m quitting. since then I’ve asked multiple times for more tasks because I’ve completed the ones assigned to me but he just won’t give me anything. I also don’t have anything else I need to prep for handover. In one work day, I’ve finished reading a whole book, watched a movie, researched on cameras I wanted to buy and doom scrolled Reddit for at least an hour. I’m going stir crazy. This obviously wouldn’t be a problem if I was working from home but I still have to be in the office. I thankfully have a small booth to myself so I can do the above nonsense without anyone seeing but I just can’t do this for another two months. I know I should work on my own projects but I honestly just want to do work.

My team is really big like 12 people and my boss recently remarked that upper management felt our team’s output was too small for the number of people so I know there isn’t enough projects to go around. Even if I wanted to do my own projects, we don’t have any QA resource and the projects I can do work for is classified under a sub team that I’m not sure I should bother without my boss’ permission since I’m leaving.

I’ve already been dealing with not having much to do for a good 6 months (part of why I’m quitting), but the idea that I really will have absolutely NOTHING is driving me nuts. (why give valuable projects to a soon to be ex employee whose performance doesn’t matter when there are other employees who need projects too?)

I know I’m in an incredibly lucky position to have a job and not have to do anything to earn money. but I cannot reiterate how slowly time passes.

What can I do? Should I keep bugging my boss for work? Should I just pay off my notice period (I’m allowed to do that in my country but that means I’d be quitting with -1 month pay for 2 months of work)? Can I request to be terminated earlier if there’s no work for me? Am I just being overly anxious about work and maybe when projects start trickling in he’ll give me something? Or do I have the right idea about this whole thing?

please send help

so I told my boss last week that I’m quitting. since then I’ve asked multiple times for more tasks because I’ve completed the ones assigned to me but he just won’t give me anything. I also don’t have anything else I need to prep for handover. In one work day, I’ve finished reading a whole book, watched a movie, researched on cameras I wanted to buy and doom scrolled Reddit for at least an hour. I’m going stir crazy. This obviously wouldn’t be a problem if I was working from home but I still have to be in the office. I thankfully have a small booth to myself so I can do the above nonsense without anyone seeing but I just can’t do this for another two months. I know I should work on my own projects but I honestly just want to do work.

My team is really big like 12 people and my boss recently remarked that upper management felt our team’s output was too small for the number of people so I know there isn’t enough projects to go around. Even if I wanted to do my own projects, we don’t have any QA resource and the projects I can do work for is classified under a sub team that I’m not sure I should bother without my boss’ permission since I’m leaving.

I’ve already been dealing with not having much to do for a good 6 months (part of why I’m quitting), but the idea that I really will have absolutely NOTHING is driving me nuts. (why give valuable projects to a soon to be ex employee whose performance doesn’t matter when there are other employees who need projects too?)

I know I’m in an incredibly lucky position to have a job and not have to do anything to earn money. but I cannot reiterate how slowly time passes.

What can I do? Should I keep bugging my boss for work? Should I just pay off my notice period (I’m allowed to do that in my country but that means I’d be quitting with -1 month pay for 2 months of work)? Can I request to be terminated earlier if there’s no work for me? Am I just being overly anxious about work and maybe when projects start trickling in he’ll give me something? Or do I have the right idea about this whole thing?

please send help