I've heard about people getting fired in this economy and I know it's no joke. I've been fired before and it wasn't any fun.
So I ask this question with the greatest of sensitivity for those who've been let go unexpectedly: how would I go about raising the prospect of being packaged out of my job with a nice payoff? I don't think my boss thinks terribly highly of me and wouldn't shed too many tears if I resigned. But it's either stay in this job for another 2 years to FIRE, or engineer a payoff now of maybe 1 year salary. I'm not looking to get myself fired (like George Costanza when he was tring to join the Mets); rather to nudge my employer towards what I secretly want and that is not to be working there any more...
So I ask this question with the greatest of sensitivity for those who've been let go unexpectedly: how would I go about raising the prospect of being packaged out of my job with a nice payoff? I don't think my boss thinks terribly highly of me and wouldn't shed too many tears if I resigned. But it's either stay in this job for another 2 years to FIRE, or engineer a payoff now of maybe 1 year salary. I'm not looking to get myself fired (like George Costanza when he was tring to join the Mets); rather to nudge my employer towards what I secretly want and that is not to be working there any more...