Normanton, you’re not thinking this all the way through. If they send out a CR notice and you say to them ‘hang on a sec, instead of paying me 6 months pay, how about paying me nothing and I’ll just go LWOP until you tell me you need me’ which option do you reckon they’ll take? Mig3 is spot on here.
They have a bucket of money labelled ‘redundancy’. They’re happy to spend it for certain people- particularly those towards the end of their careers. They’d likely prefer to avoid spending it on someone they’re virtually guaranteed to bring back into the fold in just a couple of years time.
Of course Tino wants everyone to take LWOP so that his costs to $0. However If he expects me to be prepared to ‘jump now’ when he needs me then he needs to understand that he has to pay a ‘retainer’ for that privilege.