To think colleagues are being deliberately difficult with me as it's my last week?

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It's my last week at work, and today has been such a stressful day. I should be winding down and doing more admin kind of things, but it feels like everyone is piling as much work on me as they can.

I had one colleague asking me to show another colleague a process I'm not familiar with. I'm at home and my two colleagues were in the office, so what would be quickly showing them in the office in 5 minutes ended up taking most of my afternoon up as I had to ask colleague how to do it first, before I could then show my other colleague how to do it... Then I started showing the colleague how to do the process only for it to come up with an error I had no idea how to fix, as I don't know the process and never used it once during my time at the company!

Then I had another colleague send me something at 4:30pm asking for it to be finished by end of day, as they had agreed for it to be reviewed by someone senior tomorrow morning without consulting me first. I said I can't get it done by end of day, I had a 30 minute meeting and other work to do. Now I need to log in tomorrow morning and rush to finish work to get it over to the senior person ASAP.

I feel like I know objectively these are small things, but maybe it's the emotion of leaving a job that's catching up to me but I just feel so fed up!

It's your last week, just say you're wrapping stuff up, sorting emails and filing or whatever and don't worry about it. When I left my last job I just blocked in the last week in my calendar so no one could book any meetings and collated some process and info documents on the stuff I mainly worked on (I'd suggested this would be useful for various reasons whilst in post but was always told there's no time- but as they hadn't recruited at that point for someone I couldn't do a handover in person so thought it worthwhile). It benefited me doing so as I worked at my own pace yet employer was pleased and I left on a good note.

So what? Half a day of a new colleague not doing much / just reading through background stuff isn't the end of the world for them, or the company and us not your problem. You are leaving. And you probably didn't train them well if you don't know what you are doing in the first place, so they will need it repeated anyway.

You also need to reassess your "go to habit". A colleague's lack of organisation is not your problem to fix. They aren't putting themselves out to get the job done, are they? And it sounds like enough of your own work to deal with without covering for others.

That's clear-cut then; you say, politely but firmly, that you are prioritising putting everything in order but you will fit in what you can of other stuff; however, not to the point where you aren't able to ensure your own files are up-to-date.

Just firmly say no.

These people can do their own work.

Surely if it's your last week and you're still being paid you should still be working? Seems to me you just want to cruise and are annoyed you've been asked to do .... work

Say no. What are they going to do, sack you?

I have been in the workforce a very long time and I honestly never come across a situation where people have been deliberately horrible to somebody who is leaving. It is normal for colleagues to come and go and I have never met anyone that doesn’t accept that. So I actually really doubt that they are being deliberately horrible, I expect they are trying to make the most of the rest of your time there, why are you not in the office by the way?

But the training thing is just daft. You should have said no and no again, quite why you decided to do it is beyond me.

Now I need to log in tomorrow morning and rush to finish work to get it over to the senior person ASAP

No you don’t. You reply to the original request and cc in the senior person reiterating why the request is unreasonable for you to do if that really is the case.

Just block off your calendar. You have apportioned the rest of your time to complete the handover for your replacement. You can’t accommodate last minute requests.

if a new starter needs to be trained that should have been planned- and it’s not your problem, it’s their manager’s problem.

Yes, and add an auto reply to your emails.

Call in sick with a migraine, that'll really piss them off.

You just need to say, 'No. It's my last week and I am already up to my eyeballs in winding up existing projects and setting up handover. Also I have zero knowledge of X so am not fit for purpose training anyone in it.' Then ignore subsequent emails. Or reply with very brief: can't do this as explained in previous email.

The work I need to rush tomorrow morning isn't over though

Log in at your normal time, make it a priority but if it's not done, it's not done. If anyone asks or moans point out you did explain you wouldn't have it done on time due to the training that was requested at short notice and x chose to prioritise the training.

Out of interest OP, why are you leaving?

No I'm at capacity.

And repeat.

Or I've handed that workstream over to x, try them.

But seriously no point you working on these tasks when you'll not be there for any questions/revisions.

Yanbu...but also need to be more assertive in saying no.

Think of it this way, these people are your colleagues not your friends - next week they will never see you again - so in that respect, what it their motivation to be 'nice' to you on the last week? I don't think they are being malicious, this is just the way the modern workplace is - everybody overloaded with work and trying to pass it on where they can.