Now, I may be a little old-fashioned, but if you resign, why should you expect any pay off at all? Millions of people resign from their jobs every year without getting a year's salary for doing so.....I'm thinking of resigning from my own job and wonder if I'll pay myself a year's dosh for doing so.

I think the Bank manager might veto that one!
Keith, just a minor point: the two bods who went from Auntie this morning were "invited to stand aside" rather than resign [I]per se[I]. If a year's salary is part of the deal, I should imagine that half the Corporation's staff will be rather hoping that they are likewise "invited to stand aside".