audreyh1
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Congrats!
In any case, moot point. Everyone (except my boss) was sad and hated that I was leaving. Bossman (he's never liked me and the feeling is mutual) decided to take my notice personally and said the two weeks was fine (there was pouting; grown man getting all pissy and stomping around. and no I'm not kidding)
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... At least they knew I tried to make it easier and they can yell at boss if something gets screwed up after I'm gone.
Probably best for all that it went down this way. Start figuring out your "consultant" fees for when they call you for help on the big project. Personally I wouldn't do it for anything less than 2x your former pay rate.
Already ordered a new laptop and accessories.
Concerning the laptop...one trick I used was to do a drive image backup before leaving and bought an identical used laptop on eBay (amazingly cheap since the work machine was pretty old), to which I restored the image. Worked perfectly! I only did it so I could slowly and carefully get my stuff off the machine, not to use the corporate software long-term. If all you neede were files, the drive image would be over kill, but that made it easier for me to organize things and perform exports of just what I wanted.
BTW, I completely understand your wanting to "do a tidy wrap-up" on your job, not for anyone but yourself.
Congratulations on this exciting time in your life!
You wrote, "Due to how I feel about this pet project, I am going to give the company the option of having me stay two months to wrap up the big push (the next two months are the biggest and most important of the year for this project)."
Regarding the transition you're thinking of offering, my first instinct was to say to you, let them ask you to provide those things rather than you offer it, only because it seems to me their asking would give you more leverage to get what you want out of the deal.
You might even get some of those manager perks you've heretofore been denied.
Good luck with it all.
I hate to say it, but this is what I expected -- it's the most common scenario.
I don't mean this as a negative toward you by any stretch of the imagination, but the fact is that nobody is as hard to replace as they think they are.
Congratulations on getting out easily and best wishes on your next chapter.
....Bossman (he's never liked me and the feeling is mutual) decided to take my notice personally and said the two weeks was fine ...
very sad that my project team is left scrambling. At least they knew I tried to make it easier and they can yell at boss if something gets screwed up after I'm gone.