My 2 cents... 1) If you leave a week before production, you will permanently damage your relationship with your coworkers and manager. You will also lose the

My 2 cents... 1) If you leave a week before production, you will permanently damage your relationship with your coworkers and manager. You will also lose the ability to rightfully say, "X was a mess, and I drove the effort to turn it around and get it live" 2) #1 matters to a lot of people. When you apply for jobs 3 or 5 years from now, people will check for back channels on your performance. 3) If you're being abused past your breaking point, 1 and 2 don't matter. But you have to decide. A few months of stress happens in lots of jobs. A few years of stress isn't. You have to decide if it's really just 1 week. 4) The decision also depends on how you give notice. If you are giving notice before the date slips, then you have some negotiating room with your employer. If you hand in notice post-slip, it's tougher. 5) Nobody is irreplaceable. They will get by ok without you.