Leaving can always be painful for a company, but it happens all the time and life (usually) goes on. How much knowledge do you have that's central to you and o

Leaving can always be painful for a company, but it happens all the time and life (usually) goes on. How much knowledge do you have that's central to you and only you? Have you thought about offering to put in some contracting hours when it fits your schedule should they need it? I think there's two ways that a manager could look at this. One way is they could be personally affronted and take a negative attitude about it. The other way would be a little more introspective, and understand that you leaving was a symptom of other problems, and in that case they might be a little saddened but want to focus more on making changes to prevent something like this happening again. At the end of the day though, the way I would look at this is that it's way more in your best interest to make your new employer happy than to make your old employer happy. There's a lot more downside to starting off on the wrong foot with your soon-to-be-current employer, than leaving on the best note possible with a former employer.