text: what do you do when your boss is too busy to give you work to do? i am an assistant to a very busy business owner. i do anything that i'm asked to do. but a lot of times, my boss get too caught up in her own work to stop and assign anything to me. i feel like i'm being lazy and she's doing all the work. i don't try to do this. when i go to her office to get some work to do, she tells me to come back when she's not so busy. i often times sit with nothing to do, feeling like i could be punished at any time for not doing work. what should i do? you have two options. 1. pace yourself. spread out your work into the next day if possible. 2. volunteer. (never do this)  hope that makes it an easy choice!