Trying to get laid off

Anyone successfully try to get laid off or volunteer to be laid off?

My wife works for a large company that seems to do lay offs fairly regularly. She’s thinking of retiring next summer, but it would be awesome if she could get laid off because she’s worked there forever would receive a nice severance.

I actually managed to do this, but completely by chance. I had June 2022 in my personal calendar as my goal date to retire, but had not told anyone other than my wife. I ended up getting laid off right at the beginning of June, but not because of anything that I did to try and get laid off. It was kind of good because it forced me to retire and I received a bit of a severance. But if I had not been laid off, I probably would have worked one more year because that stock market was not doing that great at the time and it would have been nice to be able to keep adding to my portfolio while the market was going down.