pltrthrowaway's comments

Explicitly point out their FIRE status? Yeah, that'd be a dick (and probably failing) negotiating tactic. But even just having it in the back of your head is going to make you go into those negotations with confidence superpowers that no amount of "I think I deserve this raise" belief could ever match.

Throwaway account, for obvious reasons...

I hit my FIRE number about a year and a half before leaving my last corporate gig, and have a BATNA (Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement) of, basically, "fuck you, fire me" meant I went into my last couple of salary/role/location negotations with enough excess confidence that I was always able to press for what I wanted (within reason), presumably because everyone opposite me could tell they didn't have a lot of wiggle room.

It only works until it doesn't, though -- I left that job when they closed my office out from underneath me and straight-up relocated my role elsewhere. They asked me to move with it, and I said "no thanks". Obviously they called my bluff (I was being totally unreasonable, to be clear), and...now I'm self-employed.

On the upside, I did mention that I'd already hit that FIRE number, so...