We've been in a state of 'emergency' all year because of the pandemic. There was a time last summer and into the fall when we had over 1000 covid specimens to analyze per day, but now it's just a few hundred even though more people are dying. No one seems to know why. But there really isn't much work to do anyway. I'm a chemist and they shut down 90% of chemistry testing for covid. I'm supposed to help on data entry, but there's not much of that anymore either. Last week I entered data for an hour. So my boss made projects for me like uploading the lab's 4000 or so documents into a new system. She promised to get me some instructions from our QA manager but when they didn't come she chewed me out for not just doing it anyway. She's a horrible toxic person and she has turned everyone else against me.