> This is idiotic on the part of your mentor/team/manager. A healthy team will have a backlog of bugs or small features that they've more or less figured out, but haven't had the time to implement

To add an even more backing to this, here are some tasks I gave to a new hire.

+ change four placeholder images for the correct ones, and learn the process to check it in

+ find out why one text element has the wrong font

+ change the favicon

This demonstrated to me that he was familiar with git and he said smart things about react so I gave him more. Your manager sucks not you, stay in there it will click in time....unless you find a better role for you