[jameshush]

The "high severance upon termination" is smart, I never thought about asking for that. I'll definitely try that in the future!

[robocat]

This is called a a golden handshake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_handshake

Unless you are receiving executive level compensation and/or you have a serious public reputation on the line, no reasonable company would consider giving you that. It would give you the perverse incentive to try to get fired and someone negotiating for that would be a strong negative signal - an economic moral hazard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

[bkanber]

There's a reason nobody has ever extended him this offer, and I suspect this is it.