So I was booked for a project about 3 weeks ago. The project started this week but the engagement lead on our end has been on vacation. I don’t get any kick off email or anything so I help out with BD instead. Come to find out I was supposed to be allocating all hours to this project and not BD. Am I in the wrong for picking up that BD work since no communication was given to me?

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Technically, no. However perhaps you could have taken more ownership too - could you have reached out before day 1 on the project to make sure you knew what you were supposed to be doing? Is there anyone else you could have reached out to this week or is this really a 2 person project? If the engagement lead is taking vacation the first week of a project they’re either not really the lead or the project is not kicking off that week so somewhere there was some miscommunication it seems.

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I agree I should’ve taken more ownership. But I guess I’m used to having kick off emails and it happened to be the week before July 4th so no one was really working. It’s not a 2 person project so I did contact someone Monday. I just feel guilty like I’m in the wrong for wanting to stay busy and not charge unassigned time.

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