Responsibilites after changing employment

Just wondering what my responsibilites after once I change employment.

I am changing jobs this week, leaving Accounting Practice to go to Industry and am just wondering what my responsibilites are to my old employer, in respect of them calling about jobs I done in the office while I worked there.

I know from other staff who have left before that they haven't got contacted to answer queries about client they may have dealt with, but just wondering how it works. Are they entitled to contact me to question things, or is it the case that once I leave then thats it?

Boss is not impressed I'm leaving so may get awkward, barely spoken to me all week only to give out that I'm leaving and saying that I'm leaving him in the lurch. Gave two weeks notice, but was on holidays for part of them so he's annoyed about that too.

Hope that made sense!

Re: Responsibilites after changing jobs

hjrdee said:

am just wondering what my responsibilites are to my old employer, in respect of them calling about jobs I done in the office while I worked there.

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None in my opinion. You are no longer employed by them. If you want to go out of your way and/or they want to pay you for follow up work then that's your choice.

Re: Responsibilites after changing jobs

I have worked it both ways in the past after ringing people up after they left to see if they could oblige and offer some help.

If I feel it becomes more than them obliging me, I pay them, but usually they are more than willing to help out because all have left on good terms. In one case, I paid a contractor for an additional un-worked period to cover for expected intrusions down the line. Worked well there too. If I were your employer, I would not be expecting any help.

Re: Responsibilites after changing jobs

Agree with previous posters.

Having left practice I did field one or two follow up calls on jobs I would have worked on, but this was due to the nature of the jobs in question.

Leave your files in good order, brief whoever is taking over the jobs as thoroughly as possible etc. This should reduce the need for further contact.

Any further steps you take after leaving are purely discretionary-as a matter of courtesy you could take phone calls etc. to answer brief questions such as 'where is such and such a file' etc, but you shouldn't feel you actually have to come back into the office or undertake any work for your previous employer on your own (or your new employer's time).

Are you a member of a professional body? Perhaps they may be able to advise?

Also - your new contract of employment may well have "time and attention" and "non compete" clauses which, taken at face value, may preclude you from working for others (competitors) while in their employment. Of course some of these clauses are potentially of dubious legal standing and possibly unenforceable.