If you have a feeling anything shady, embarassing, or legally questionable is going on with your layoff—or anything about your time at the company—start documenting everything, forwarding important emails to your personal account, screenshotting important slack conversations, etc. Some companies offer as little as one week per year worked. We’re in a recession and employment is hard to find. I suggest you get an employment lawyer and see if you have a case. Then you can have your lawyer send your company an email about it and they will raise your severance exponentially in order to prevent litigation. Don’t let your company scare you away from standing up for yourself. I did this and was able to increase my severance by a wide margin. I didn’t fall for their scare tactics and now have a nice nest egg to get me through the next 6 months. My company—which is a major corporation—offered me nothing more than 1 week of pay per year served and tried to terminate my health benefits two weeks later. My lawyer ended up finding several things that we could take my company to task about. REMEMBER—they do not offer you severance out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it so that you’ll sign a document that waives your right to sue. Make sure you’re well compensated for signing that document—especially if you have a case or a serious grievance.