Help?

[tzikeh]

I need advice.

My manager came to me today and pretty much begged me to work one more week. I told her flat-out no. She then offered to pay me a full week's salary for doing bare-bones work updating the schedules and index pages, which I can do from home.

Cons: Still working after I'd planned on not working. Interfering with plan of lazing about (will have to get up and do about 2 hours of work every morning). Makes me ... vaguely weird because I *know* I'll be checking my email to see if there's other work I need to do.

Pros: One more full week's pay for 2 hours of work per day.

Thoughts?

Comments

[heresluck]

As others have noted, it really depends on whether you can trust the promise of "one more week" and "bare bones." If I had reason to believe that a former employer would stick to that, and if I got it in writing ("schedules and index ONLY"), then I'd do it; but then I need the money more than you do at the moment.

In any event, I'd also be prepared, if approached for "one more week, round two," to say "absolutely not" in a really unambiguous way. One extra week I can see -- your manager's in a pinch -- but any more than that and somebody's trying to take advantage of your guilt and/or your erstwhile goodwill.

You've been looking forward to ditching this job for so long -- I don't want it poisoning your time off.