Less than hectic...

So, as it turned out, the aforementioned e-document of my previous blog was completely redundant. There’s been a change in line-up for next week’s major event, so the whole thing had to be redesigned anyway. Annoying.

The keynote speaker for next week’s event went and caught himself chickenpox and is in quarantine for two weeks, so when I last left the office, everyone was running around in panic mode desperately searching for a new speaker to fill his shoes.

When I arrived this morning to put together a new document, I discovered that a new speaker had been found, and it was in fact my dad. So that’s a weird little turn of events.

Anyway, I’ve finished the new document and all the admin stuff. The website is up to date, the dishes are washed, and the new media distribution lists are all waiting to approval. So I’m sitting here with not much to do but write this blog, because everyone is too busy to delegate…

So I guess what I’m wondering is if anyone else ever spent hours of their placement feeling completely useless. Because everyone has written extensively about all the PR projects they’ve been busy working on and there’s not much mention of any boredom. Did noone else spend even one afternoon doing almost nothing?

I’ve found this to be a significant flaw in this work placement situation. Obviously it’s not a frequent thing, and most days I’m kept busy right up until the end of the day. But I’ve found that (at least with my own placement organisation) I’m assigned a project or two for each day, and I tend to complete them fairly quickly, at which point my supervisors have picked up other tasks and are too deeply engrossed in them to stop and give me a new assignment. I do push them to delegate me some of the work that’s keeping them busy, but there’s only so many times you can ask before you become that annoying work experience kid that people dread. Also, how bad do I feel interrupting someone to give me a project while they’re clearly on a roll with their own? Especially when everyone is under so much pressure in the lead up to this event…

So purely to satisfy my own curiosity, I’m putting it out there, since we're all coming to the end of our placements… Was every single person undertaking this unit genuinely frantically busy for the whole 20 days of their placement?