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I also don’t know why the company hired me, because the senior colleague has been giving me the cold shoulder and ignoring me. I have nothing to do, so I can only scroll on my phone. The boss is often absent. Everyone else in the company has their own work to do, and there’s absolutely no need to hire someone else, so what is this all about? My guess is that the company wants the senior colleague to leave, but she doesn’t want to, and the company can’t do anything about it. So she gets paid to sit around doing nothing every day.