Am I overreacting? My former boss texted me last night asking if I would be able to work on a landing page project over the night. For some context I left the company a month ago because I was severely underpaid and with no benefits. I’m 30 and I’ve been there for over 5 years paying for health insurance out of pocket and a 50k salary. I offered to help with a few side projects but now I feel like he’s leaning on me again and thinks because I’m so nice I’ll say yes and slave away for him anytime

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Ummmm what?? Hard no. Unless he pays you anything you ask for and you decide it’s worth it for that reason.

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Sounds like it’s not worth it to you at any rate then, and that’s perfectly justifiable in my opinion.

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My first boss was like this and I didn’t know any better. Once I did know better it got to a point where I had to ghost him until he stopped reaching out.

Hard no. If he wasn’t treating you well before, he’s certainly not going to start now. You don’t even owe a timely response to the text. If he valued your work he would have texted you to ask if you had time to talk about an urgent project then put on his big boy pants, get on the phone, discuss the project and ask how much you would charge.

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