I’m currently on the bench and had a senior colleague reach out to me about assisting with a work item. I volunteered to help (but I can’t charge my time). There was (to my knowledge) an entire team of individuals working on the project up until last week so it seemed to me that my help wasn’t really needed. The project is spinning down and they’ve lessened the team members, but I’m still helping out with tasks. I don’t mind helping at all, but it seems weird. Am I thinking into this too much?

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You are not overthinking this. Being able to charge hours is how you increase your utilization rate, which impacts you performance review and bonus. So they should figure out how you can charge hours because it is unfair for your time to not be billable, imo.

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No, this is weird. Volunteering to help is like 1-2 hours. Mostly advisory. Beyond that, you should be billing your time.

And it's not even like you're on some related project and taking this up. The person is definitely taking advantage of your kindness.

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Like I’m kind of being held accountable for deliverables that other people are working on, but I’m not on the project/ not aware of the deadlines we’re working with/ don’t even know who the project resources are

Right? Like if I could charge for it I wouldn’t mind as much. But I’m doing the work that you had a team for. A team that has now rolled off, but I’m still doing work?

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