On The Bench

What is On The Bench?

Common jargon used in the IT industry to describe programmers waiting between jobs.

After leaving Syntel, Santosh went nearly mental sitting on the bench for months before he found a job at Macrosoft.

See wait, jobless, unemployed, software, programmer

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