Just got fired? Your boss, and possibly an HR rep have just handed you a letter of termination that you didn’t see coming, no reasons given; they have offered you a severance package, and said you have only 2 days, or 1 week, or some other very short time period in which to accept it, or else it’s off the table. What to do?? Unfortunately, this is a frequent event. You can usually assume that the employer has low-balled you on the severance offer, relying on the law of percentages. In other words, at least 75% of employees who are fired do not even bother to call a lawyer for advice regarding the severance proposed, thinking that this is all they’ll ever get, and they cannot afford a lawyer, since they just got fired. Employers know this, and bank on it. From the 25% of fired employees that call a lawyer, perhaps half of them, will actually retain that lawyer to go after the employer for a better deal. When the better deal doesn’t come, a small percentage of those persons bring a claim against the employer for wrongful dismissal.