That's the status of a friend who once worked with me. She's working with a bigger organization.
Big organizations face the same environment that a small organization faces. But they do have far more resources than a small organization. A small organization is anyway struggling to make the optimum use of resources. No wonder, people at such places are slogging like mad to get things done. Therefore, everyone who joins gets some work to be done. Every new person is a helping hand.
Big organizations have bigger reputations, bigger susceptibilities, bigger fears. Much too often they recruit people not to make them work actually but simply to ensure that someone's there 'in case there's something to be done'. They keep paying you for your availability. Being available is the work you do. Yes, you might not like that kind of work. Are there more satisfying things than being available? Yes? You know what to do.
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