Ask MM when he's being replaced by someone in India.
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You could just show up in full camouflage hunting attire. That could get you laid off but more likely fired. It's been done before.
Just send Madsen a personal note and tell him you disagree with one of his recent ideas.....even his leaders would dare do this and will guarantee you get sent walking. You could give negative feedback to one of his town halls and I'm sure HR will find you.
Planning to retire within a year, I decided to get PIPed out and get a big fat severance payment. Why not? I played my hand well, but management played theirs even better. I did my job well, didn't let my coworkers down, but at the same time slipped just enough to get under by bosses skin. It worked, I got a bad appraisal. Maybe just a coincidence, because good and bad appraisals seemed to alternate for a few years prior. Funny thing is I was doing my job consistently without change over those years. Anyways, I got the bad review I wanted, but then my boss dropped the other shoe. I was told that HR had said nothing about a PIP so I would not be one. If they want you to stay, nothing short of being fired or quitting will get out out. If they want you gone, nothing you do will be good enough.
The underlying goal is to get noticed by management and make your involvement doing your job a pain point for higher ups... ideally by trying to drive honest improvement.
Censor much, Layoff.com???
Anyway, if you are just looking for any way to get RIFed and get money for nothing, then you really don't deserve any severance whatsoever, and probably never did anything in your career to deserve it, either.
Ask a pointed question at an all-hands meeting. One will do.
New package details-
1 hr of pay for each year you worked.
Medical premiums covered for 1 week
Ratty box to pack ur sh_t and GTFO
You missed your chance. I understand they are working to phase out the severance packages going forward in favor of more focus on transition assistance. There will be no severance offered to folks of retirement age. More to come.
Hang a sign outside your cubicle that says: UNIONiZE
Be sure that it is easily seen
Do NOT talk about it, lest you be fired for recruiting on company time
Take no further action, do no recruiting, speak to no one about it. Watch the mayhem ensue.
When HR comes to take it down, repost it with the following: "Removal of this sign is a violation of NLRB regulations". It isn't, but they'll freak out and leave it alone.
Once HR has taken note, you are now in the driver's seat. Firing you might appear to be retaliatory on their end and invite a lawsuit, while your offer to be laid off with full standard benefits will be gladly and accepted without delay.
Been there, done that. Worked great.
Stop all work. In about 10 years or so someone might get upset and riff u
It’s called no show. Do that for about a month before anyone complains and you’ll get your slip
Just do your job and stand up against shady or incomplete work. You have been around long enough to be considered an "expert" so in every meeting start shooting down bad ideas. Speak up when you know the work is bad and needs to be reworked. Escalate when project enginners cut corners.
Just make sure that you are 100% right in what you take a stand for, and you cannot ever get an outer L. But once known as a pain in the (blank) that isn't going to keep quiet, you will be shown the door on the next layoff.
Call (don't email) your local HR rep and ask some vague, reconnaissance-type questions around "accommodations" for a debilitating illness. Do not specify the illness, and you're not telling them that you have an illness. Be sure you have copies of everything you'd want prior to doing this. Of course, they will refer you to the third-party HR "support" team far, far away, but you don't need to follow up with them...the seeds will have been sown.