[iamNumber4]

Severance package. Try to negotiate for a few months of severance. Make sure the wording includes language for no longer employed by. So that if you decide to quit, or they let you go they will pay you a wage before any unemployment for a given term. But also includes it being open if you do start another job right away that they still owe you. Also try to get health insurance during the term as well.

Then at review time try to get more added time added to it. So that over time you can get more weeks of pay. This can be a bargaining chip if they can’t afford a giving a raise, that you would accept more time for the severance package instead of a raise. While it might also seem silly if a raise is offered but no increase in severance counter with a proposal with a smaller raise and severance.

Do this until you have 6 months to a year of severance. Start low with say 2-4 weeks but try for 12 weeks.

This will buy you protection in the future if work becomes hostile, or a super visor start pulling crap trying to make up bs on performance reviews to try to justify letting you go.

Make it expensive for you to leave the company and that they need to be honest, fair and ethical with you at all times, or you can play the fuck it card and sit at home and still get paid while you look for work. If they let you go same deal, but you then get any unemployment after the severance terms are up.