My company and the client decided to remove me from the client's project in three weeks, and I have to work on the project until there, most of that time on support (which is a kind of punishment in itself).

Somehow they expected that knowing this I would finish my current ticket and just happily work on that pile of technical debt called a project with a smile. Instead a 5 minute call with a doctor got me a work break, which is compensated like work days (but doesn't consume vacation days, is effective immediately and can't be opposed to).

Why not working on that three more weeks? Because I hate that project that got me in a burn out state since a few months. Their decision was sudden and brutal, with no formal warning and no effort to try getting my point of view and improving things. Since management decided to play asshole game it's fair game.

Now you might ask what if I get fired? Well I could enjoy my 1 year half vacation with unemployment benefits north of 2K€/month working on interesting projects like research papers and my video game. Very scary indeed. I hope the boss can see the light of economic rationality again.

My understanding of EU labor laws is limited, but generally even in the EU an employee refusing to work during the remainder of their term of employment can be used as grounds to deny both severance and unemployment benefits.

This might make a great story for fake internet points, but seriously, don't do this in real life.

Just do the bare minimum required.

>Are you going on PTO

I think that was implied well enough by the last paragraph, or rather the PO has no recourse to the threat of taking PTO.

The comment is more about how managers don't think about the obvious consequences of their actions when it's their job to do so.

Aside from that, saying "do your best" right after you removed someone from a project is hilariously tone-deaf. So is the work valuable and I need to give it 110%, or is it not and I have 3 weeks notice?