In my office, employees receive their assignments from their managers. In other words, our work is sent to a private email which my manager only has access too and forwards to us. I've always had a decent amount of work but recently my manager has been picking favorites and sending assignments to the office brown nose and his select favorites. I find this practice idiotic as he places all of his eggs in one basket (a few become highly trained and experienced over the rest of us). If one of his favorite quits, get's sick, or get's fired their position has to now be filled by someone with less experience and training.
Recently his favoritism has gotten so extreme that my work has trickled down to almost nothing while other employees are working 10 hour shifts. He may be attempting to starve me off and get me fired for low productivity (although that would be stupid as it would make him look bad as well). I've spoke with him about this several times now and his responses are always vague one word answers. He's usually busy so I rarely get more than a few minutes with him alone.
I've already started looking for another job. My guess is eventually a higher-up may notice that I'm not doing anything and fire me and this is just his passive aggressive way of getting rid me.
Or this could all be in my head. My company maybe really slow at the moment and I may have to just have to wait this slow period out until my company becomes busy again. But if that's true, why are some employees working overtime?