If we ignore the actual stress of a manager suddenly finding out and asking you to report what you have been doing. Probably still possible to bullshit long enough in a big company to recover a normal situation or find another job.
This is why you shouldnât get rid of all your work. Keep a bit and make it immaculate. If they ask why you havenât done more, just say ânobody asked me to.â
Problem with that approach is that they will argue that if you didnât have enough work to do, you should have asked for more. OP knowingly slipped through the cracks to, so the argument of âI donât have a line manager to give me anyâ probably isnât going to cut it as their work will argue that OP shouldâve gone to HR to sort their responsibilities as soon as they were aware.
They might get fired but no one has to âseekâ extra work, thereâs no legal obligation. If they do their simple existing task, they are meeting known expectations.
I donât know what kind of fucked up country you live in, but in my the employer- employee relationship means that the employer dictates what work you do and when, so if they donât give you anything to do thatâs on them.
Going further even better if you are self employed and on a cintreact thats fix rather than hours based, they have even less of a case, contract says you will charge x amount every month, if they donât contact you with any issue thatâs on them.
âIâve been awaiting my next jobâ
Probably get fire but oh well, easy run until that point.
Nah, when you jam up the machine in an unexpected way, more likely than not theyâre going to keep it quiet. A manager isnât going to want to go to their boss with a problem no one noticed⌠Itâs going to do nothing to benefit them and itâll make their life harder
All you have to do is play dumb. Insubordination is one thing, waiting for orders is just having a job with little autonomy. If you maintain you were just a good little cog waiting to be reconnected to the machine, theyâre better off sweeping it under the rug.
They might get upset instead, but what are they going to do? Sue you for not being more proactive? Theyâd probably lose more in legal fees than they could get back from most people