How to tell my bosses I’m bored
30th December 2016
My answer to How to tell my bosses I’m bored on Ask MetaFilter
The magic word here is “challenging”. Don’t say you are bored—say you do not find your current workload challenging enough. Any good manager should be ready to respond to that.
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