<The blow was softened by my getting a ridiculous severance package–all my vacation days paid out in cash before I walked out the door that day, plus six weeks

<The blow was softened by my getting a ridiculous severance package–all my vacation days paid out in cash before I walked out the door that day, plus six weeks of severance pay...> But as it turns out, that was two weeks of severance plus the bonus he had already earned implemented as four weeks of extra severance. Ridiculous, indeed.