Remote employee quits, boss forces them to travel across the country and stay 3 months to finish their work: 'No is a complete sentence'

But even if you're leaving somewhere, you can still feel a sense of responsibility to your team. You might want to make sure that they're okay and that they don't need anything from you. Maybe you spent a lot of time at that company, and you want to show that you care. But it's important not to take that too far. At the end of the day, it's a job, and you want to treat it as such. You don't need to move mountains in your personal life just because they asked you to. 

That's what came up in this story, where an employee was asked to go above and beyond at the end of their job. The way they saw it, they were already moving on to the next thing. The way their employer saw it, they wanted to squeeze every last drop out of them before they went on their way. They were left wondering what the appropriate course of action was and how they could navigate this sticky situation. They wanted to assert their own needs without ruffling too many feathers, which is a difficult thing to do. Keep reading to find out what happened and see what commenters, some of whom had experience in this area, had to say.