Former employee refuses to help boss and colleagues when they ask questions about the vacant job, then decides to block them when they fail to stop: ‘Kindly kick rocks’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jun 1, 2026 12:00 PM EDT

What is the professional way of saying "leave me alone" to someone?

If we said every single thing that came to our mind to our boss or colleagues, we would not be able to keep our jobs for longer than a few days. When you work in a corporate environment, you have to play the corporate game, which means that you have to notice what you say to people and how you say it. You can't just say everything that's on your mind.

However, once you leave a job, you have a rare opportunity to be as honest as possible without any repercussions. Not only that, once you don't owe these people anything, there is not a single reason for you to comply with their demands or answer their questions. You can simply tell them to 'kick rocks' and call it a day.

Take the employee who shared their story below with an online community. Yesterday was their last day at the job, and up until then, they tried to ensure they left on good terms with everyone. They made a careful plan during their last month to wrap up everything they were working on and even trained 4 other people on the work they were doing. This employee truly did everything in their power to ensure their colleagues and boss had all the tools they needed for the job before their last day at work.

It wasn't enough. After their last day, the former colleagues and boss kept calling and emailing this employee with questions and demands. They needed this file, wanted to know about that case, and even asked the former employee, who understandably refused, to come in for additional training.

Yet they kept calling and asking, until the former employee saw no other solution but to block everyone they used to work with. Should that be the solution? Read the full story below to decide.

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  • The image represents an employee holding a cardboard box as she is leaving an office after quitting.
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    The image represents an employee holding a cardboard box as she is leaving an office after quitting.

  • WIBTAH if i block former colleages that are not taking my last day seriously?

    My last day at my former employer was yesterday and I am still getting requests, questions and in all honestly I am fed up. I provided a month notice, enough to wrap up what open cases I had
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  • and finish all the reports, affidavits and other work, and trained 4 other people on work I was doing that no one in the firm was familiar with. I made manuals, recorded training videos, and yet
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  • I'm still getting calls and questions from employees, HR, my boss. Before anyone suggests billing at whatever rate, my new contract at the job I'm starting does not allow work for other law
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  • practices, if I do that, I would be in breach. Its a much better paying job that I plan to do great me off, since last in. What February I made 3 requests to pay me market, they do evaluations in
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  • September and adjusted my pay in November. I was asking for 10% increase considering the case load I was dumped with was a lot and they barely budged their budget, quoting that Im a
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  • junior and the market is what im getting paid. When I put in the notice, magically there ended up being room in the budget for what I was asking originally and at that point I was done
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  • negotiating because my new job is paying me almost 40% more and a starting bonus. Junior my a, senior associates ask me questions about operating system they should be familiar with at their level.
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  • HR sent me an email to my personal email asking to come in next week to train someone new, which I obviously declined, because where did they find audacity. My former boss sent me
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  • a text asking where is a file, they're all organized alphabetically in filing system and in our server like they have been for years. Its his case, how is it possible he doesn't even know
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  • what his case name is. I used to set him up with all the notes for all the new cases he opens and now he realized he has to do it himself. The employees added me on Instagram facebook and
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  • linked in, wishing me well but at the same time asking if they can reach out if they need my help. No, I am specifically leaving because for years I was the one that all this overflow of work gets dumped on. I got fed up being the default figure it out person.
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    Man talks on two phones simultaneously, displayed by a model.

  • My last day yesterday was ridiculous, I planned out the month to wrap up what I had open which I did. Plan was finish up, clean out desk, say goodbye leave on good terms. Instead, I
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  • was asked to input urgent file, because senior who was assigned this file will need more time and its urgent. I handled double cases than that guy, how is he 'swamped'??. I explained, it makes
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  • sense to have me open new file when he will be working on it and won't be familiar, they begged and I did it anyway.
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  • They asked to follow up with one of the other files I reassigned, w is the point if who I follow will likely be responding and calling me? Asked to process a payment, fine, even though I made a
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  • manual and trained 4 staff on it. With every request I reminded that I made manuals, and maybe the other staff I trained can do it.
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  • I am so annoyed because I wanted to leave on good terms, provided more than minimum notice, went above and beyond with training and manuals and I they're now crossing personal
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  • boundaries. My personal email, linked in, texts, instagram and Facebook have been going off. This is ridiculous, I didn't respond to the employees, 13 people added me between all platforms, i
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  • just respinded to the CEO witb the file name and HR to basically tell her to kindly kick rocks with her ridiculous request to train someone next week while im on- boarding at new job and need to focus on that.
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  • TLDR: former colleagues are contacting me for guidance in case they need help and I am fed up with the sheer amount of messages and requests. WIBTAH if I cut ties with the former colleagues?
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    A close-up view of businessperson texting on a smartphone while sitting in an office room

  • gawdpuppy nta, block and move on
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  • Motor-Juggernaut 1009 Obvs NTA. I would craft a simple boilerplate response you send to each request on every platform to the effect of ""It was great working with you. I've done as much planning as
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  • possible to ease this transition, and cannot provide responses to any questions or requests per my agreement with my new employer." Unfriend them all on all your socials. Best of luck on your new position.
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