alt Hacker News>If I offer you money to eat a turd, is it your view that you are being forced to eat the turd?
Look, I'm not here to kink shame, but that's not the right forum for that sort of fetish.
Anyway. You seem to have a trouble understanding the concept of severance.
Severance is just a form of compensation for work that was performed.
It is not given to someone who did not work for the company. It gets taxed as compensation. It is compensation.
There are limits to what an employer can demand of an employee for compensation.
There are limits to what employer can make the compensation contingent on.
Making a bonus contingent on engaging in your fetishes is definitely not OK.
Hope that's clear.
> Look, I'm not here to kink shame
> Making a bonus contingent on engaging in your fetishes is definitely not OK
And yet here you are shaming me for my kink of making compensation contingent on provided service...
Severance is compensation given up front in exchange for the labor/service of signing and following through with the severance agreement.
It is not compensation for work that was performed. It is compensation for work that will be performed.
It is not something you are entitled to by virtue of having worked somewhere. The company is free to fire you with no severance whatsoever if they want (in the US).