I think my employer forgot about me?
I started a new (remote) job about 2.5 months ago. Higher pay, more responsibility- standard stuff. Except its been 2.5 months and they’ve given me nothing to do. No onboarding beyond a 30 minute session with HR on the first day. No meet and greets with the team.
I’ve had 2 meetings with my boss who just talked at me about how bad things were before she worked here and 1 where I was to “shadow.”
I get cc’ed on a lot of e-mails but nothing has action items for me or requests. I’ve been trying to find things to do to fill the time but this week, I just didn’t (I did some food prep, cleaned my house, planted some flowers, etc.) and unsurprisingly no one noticed.
Am I obligated to bring this to anyone’s attention or should I just hang out? 3 days in I asked about things to do and was told “We’ll schedule an orientation soon” but that was 2+ months ago now.
Realistically, how long can I just f-around and collect a check? Could I get fired if they find out I’m doing nothing if they gave me nothing to do and trained me on nothing?
Edit: I do want to clarify a few things about the post.
I HAVE asked for work several times. No, not so blunt as “I think you forgot about me. I’ve worked about 3 hours in the past 10 weeks” but examples include “Is anything needed from me on this?” “Do you have a resource for this so I can learn more?” “My schedule is pretty light, is there a time we can connect because I’m ready to jump in?
I have also e-mailed HR asking for any “additional onboarding or training that I am missing since I had a very brief 30-min onboarding but am sure there are further tasks to be done” and that was 4 weeks ago with no response. It was only this week that I’ve stopped trying.
I’m a mid-level employee (10-15 years of experience w/advanced degrees), so not a junior or entry level.
I breezed through the website and trainings for the company in the first few days (even videos on YouTube about it) but there’s NOTHING for this department in terms of SOPs, trainings, resources, etc. at least that I can find.
It’s been a 1-person department for a while (my supervisor) so not much seems to be written down. I have found links to things referenced (current projects for example) but access is behind digital security barriers no one has set me up on.
I appreciate the positivity and light heartedness. I’ve been feeling a lot of anxiety about my normally productive nature grinding to a halt.