'Hand over all my tasks so you can get rid of me? Ok!': IT Manager successfully lands $200k payout when new boss plots their redundancy

Getting fired stinks, but tricking your new manager into firing you so that you can walk away to your new job with a generous redundancy payout has to be the best way to get let go from a position. That's what this employee managed to do, playing along with their new boss's apparent plot to get rid of them and ensuring that they qualified for a cushy redundancy payout that would see them well compensated.

When their new boss started, this IT Manager found themself the target, quickly realizing that their boss was plotting their removal from the company in order to put one of their cronies into their role. Since they anticipated trouble, they began to look for new jobs, quickly finding one just as their boss made their move. Luckily for the manager and unluckily for their boss, the reasons given for their firing qualified them for the company's generous redundancy package.