Not so objective objectives

So...

You tell your line manager that you have not got enough work to do during the day, that the work you have is vastly below your capabilities, that the role underload is so stressful it is making you feel ill and contributing to mood changes, that you cannot wait to go home at the end of the day and that you get absolutely no satisfaction from the job at all. In fact, you go on to say, as if any further emphasis is needed, that this is the worst job you've ever had.

What might you reasonably expect to happen and when?

I can tell you what happened here.

Nothing. No really, nothing. 

6 weeks later, following this meeting, a tad high risk I thought admitting to the daily workload of very little, we had a follow up meeting. In that follow up meeting no solution was offered to the predicament except the vague opportunity to definitely, possibly, maybe contributing to a small paper on the output of clogs in Lithuania or something similarly obscure. I was still reflecting on the 'so there's nothing you can suggest' line of discussion we'd had when the said line manager suggested we meet in a further. Further as in 6 weeks. We are going to discuss objectives for the coming year.

Well that won't take long - that involves me getting the hell out of there, though that is taking so much longer than I anticipated. Or wanted. Or need. However as we haven't even thought of what those objectives might be then it will be an interesting conversation. Well it won't be because there will have been little thought put into it except the 'we need to fill in a form' so can we finish this process.

And it's this that ticks me off. Not the 'we have a problem with an employee how can we resolve it?' it's a 'OMG we have to carry out a process that some HR elf has constructed and that no one takes the blindest bit of notice of so we can get back to our own lovely cosey wosey world.'

Tell me world, is there anyone else out there having this problem?

Come, on be objective