Well it's more about preying on vulnerable people in general. Not playing along may make you lose your severance, and may also ruin your rep with that company f

Well it's more about preying on vulnerable people in general. Not playing along may make you lose your severance, and may also ruin your rep with that company for the purposes of re-hire. Obviously you shouldn't work for the Disneys of the world if you can work somewhere else. If you're really confident that you can find good work wherever and whenever you want it then you can afford to tell a bad employer like Disney to fuck off. For various reasons, a lot of people can't do that.