I have built a large reserve of emergency cash for just this kind of bullshit. I can comfortably go over a year before needing to find another job and still take another 6 months to land it...and never touch my retirement funds.
I’m willing to bet they have no idea how fast I will just stop playing their game, quit and move on.
Oh yeah, and if it comes to that and the dumbasses try to entice me back they will find that my pay rate just doubled.
A few months off working around the house, finishing my novel and playing with the GTS sounds just fine to me right now. Maybe I will even get my graphics business up and running along the way too.