I have an email account from my federal client. I periodically receive office-wide emails about social events like ice cream socials to welcome new employees. Would it be weird to go? Should I ignore?

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People on my project go all the time. Double check with client to see if events are welcome to contractors/consultants

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I could be wrong, but I’m not sure if you’re allowed to actually. IIRC my govie friend said that all the consultants at her agency aren’t allowed to come to agency sponsored social events because of some legal thing or another.

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Depends on your work environment and a lot of factors. As a general personal rule, if it’s a staff augmentation role, I’ll consider going. If I’m in and out in 5 weeks or less, or only there 5-15% FTE, I won’t go*

*Exception: a key decision maker (someone in Govt PMO side that decides things, serves on award panels, is govt C suite (SES) ) is going. If you get that invite you take it and improve your face time situation with the client, even if it’s like a bocce league or something low key

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Thanks for the advice y'all. I'll ask around and see what the precedent is

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