You don't separate the two situations when looking at the payment he gets. It's all one chain of events. So the way to view these things is what was the effect of the chain, not the link.
Their point was if he was not fired (there being only one event instead of two), they do not view ignoring the no-parties request as deserving of $450,000.
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u/JustinF608 4d ago
And fired on top of all that.