> I would take the severance, and then change my phone number.
Why change your phone number? Whenever they ask, just say you’re unavailable. Pretty simple it seems to me.
Because quite frankly if I were being offered a severance package such as this, I wouldn’t want to hear from them. The severance agreement, from what little we know about it, states something to the affect that one must make themselves available to them, for 2 years. It doesn’t state that availability as having to be an easy endeavor.