Take the package, walk away and never look back.
In 1996, I and others in our company got a good separation package.
My package was good enough that I didn’t have to work a year. I developed new skills and got a job as an independent contractor that lasted 6 years until I saw the same BS happening with that company. So I quit consulting with them.
Many of those, who didn’t take the first offer from my original company, were treated like trash and then let go with a terrible separation package. A couple of years down the road or less depending on their managers. Many got canned within months after the first round of layoffs.
A few years later the skeleton crew of a once viable corporation was without a place to go to work. Their goodbye package was even less than the second one. They were ushered off the corporate property with a kinko box for their personal office stuff by armed guards to trailers for their separation from the company. Then, driven by the guards to their parked cars. Next, the security guards escorted their vehicles off the property to a city street near the plant and home office. They were told not to never come back on the corporate property. If they tried, they would be arrested.
<< They were ushered off the corporate property with a kinko box for their personal office stuff by armed guards to trailers for their separation from the company. >>
Then ... cut up their company credit cards ..
Companies don’t do that anymore. We’re lucky to get a week or two of severance pay.