vixmom, sorry to hear that co-worker is leaving. But glad she gave the notice so people can plan.
I'm sure if the worker was considerate, your boss will be free to leave everything on fantastic terms, so that he and you all can feel comfortable calling that co-worker if any questions about anything that co-worker had worked on.
That had gone wrong with us when the boss decided to tell an employee who gave notice to just leave ahead of when she wanted to go (she wanted leave at the very end of the year, start her new job at the start of the new year with no real break; the boss was "penny-wise pound-foolish" and balked at paying her for 2 office Christmas holiday days; and then of course questions came up for us about how files were named, since she had no time to get things ready in transition, and no one felt comfortable calling her up to ask her.
Irony: Yet as fate had it, she hated the corporate structure at the new place, the very corporate environment she thought she yearned for (example: her family was in China, and the new very corporate by-the-rules new place couldn't ever let her have 2 to 3 weeks together off to make that China trip with her son worthwhile), and decided to come back to my boss, after all.
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