[SpicyLemonZest]

I know people who've used their FIRE status as an argument for why they should be able to take a long sabbatical and decide whether they want to come back at the end of it, but I've never seen anyone use it to argue for special treatment in the job. I kinda feel like I'd be uncomfortable working with someone who got that kind of "favored child" status.

[pltrthrowaway]

Explicitly point out their FIRE status? Yeah, that'd be a dick (and probably failing) negotiating tactic. But even just having it in the back of your head is going to make you go into those negotations with confidence superpowers that no amount of "I think I deserve this raise" belief could ever match.