• The manager are struggling to find more work to me. I've taken on extra responsibilities, but none keep me busy.
• The colleagues who also use automaton tools don't want to use mine, or to let me take work off their plates when I offer them. Most have confessed they don't want to end up like me.
• Work from colleagues I can help died down after a while.
• I've tried moving both elsewhere in the business and externally. The first couple of internal interviews I didn't realise I had a reputation. The second couple I discussed openly with the interviewer the milestones I'd passed and the achievements I'd made to become less busy. In the most recent interview I also prepared a number of ways in which I could automate the administrative burden of the role to be able to use my knowledge and training to deliver more of what would be core to the role. All of the interviewers were very pleasant, the most recent even more so than usual, but all pointed out that my current workload wouldn't look good in my new team. It seems that I have accidentally black-listed myself.
• Expanding my role tramples on other toes of other staff, although only slightly. While the company is currently stretched in those areas, the toes that were to be trampled complained very loudly, and training/expansion was quashed.

• The managers are struggling to find more work to me. I've taken on extra responsibilities, but none keep me busy.
• The colleagues who also use automaton tools don't want to use mine, or to let me take work off their plates when I offer them. Most have confessed they don't want to end up like me.
• Work from colleagues I can help died down after a while.
• I've tried moving both elsewhere in the business and externally. The first couple of internal interviews I didn't realise I had a reputation. The second couple I discussed openly with the interviewer the milestones I'd passed and the achievements I'd made to become less busy. In the most recent interview I also prepared a number of ways in which I could automate the administrative burden of the role to be able to use my knowledge and training to deliver more of what would be core to the role. All of the interviewers were very pleasant, the most recent even more so than usual, but all pointed out that my current workload wouldn't look good in my new team. It seems that I have accidentally black-listed myself.
• Expanding my role tramples on the toes of other staff, although only slightly. While the company is currently stretched in those areas, the toes that were to be trampled complained very loudly, and training/expansion was quashed.

Along a similar vein to the poster here I initially struggled with whether to stay or leave, and took a number of steps:

Along a similar vein to the poster here I initially struggled with whether to stay or leave, and took a number of steps:

• I have spoken to my manager to work out what else I can do for him. I've taken on extra responsibilities, but none keep me busy. He's struggling to find more to give me.
• I have spoken to colleagues doing similar things to me, both to offer my automation tools, and to offer to take work off their plates. They want neither, most have confessed they don't want to end up like me.
• I have helped out where I can by finding people who are busy, or who have tasks I can help to automate. This was somewhat successful, but work died down in that thread after a while.
• I've tried moving both elsewhere in the business and externally. The first couple of internal interviews I didn't realise I had a reputation. The second couple I discussed openly with the interviewer the milestones I'd passed and the achievements I'd made to become less busy. In the most recent interview I also prepared a number of ways in which I could automate the administrative burden of the role to be able to use my knowledge and training to deliver more of what would be core to the role. All of the interviewers were very pleasant, the most recent even more so than usual, but all pointed out that my current workload wouldn't look good in my new team. It seems that I have accidentally black-listed myself.
• I have also suggested ways for me to expand my role, so that I can formally give more advice, or engage more directly with customers. Both of these actions would trample on the toes of other staff slightly, but both are areas where the company is currently stretched. The toes that were to be trampled complained very loudly, and training/expansion was quashed.

• The manager are struggling to find more work to me. I've taken on extra responsibilities, but none keep me busy.
• The colleagues who also use automaton tools don't want to use mine, or to let me take work off their plates when I offer them. Most have confessed they don't want to end up like me.
• Work from colleagues I can help died down after a while.
• I've tried moving both elsewhere in the business and externally. The first couple of internal interviews I didn't realise I had a reputation. The second couple I discussed openly with the interviewer the milestones I'd passed and the achievements I'd made to become less busy. In the most recent interview I also prepared a number of ways in which I could automate the administrative burden of the role to be able to use my knowledge and training to deliver more of what would be core to the role. All of the interviewers were very pleasant, the most recent even more so than usual, but all pointed out that my current workload wouldn't look good in my new team. It seems that I have accidentally black-listed myself.
• Expanding my role tramples on other toes of other staff, although only slightly. While the company is currently stretched in those areas, the toes that were to be trampled complained very loudly, and training/expansion was quashed.