People take a chill pill!!!
Carolyn Gracie is about 65, and Dan Hughes, about 62.
Typical retirement age in the US.( average age is 64).
They are both elegible to start Social Security, and Carolyn, Medicare.
Add a severance package to their retirement savings...why WOULDN'T they take it?
Corporations make offers to incentivize people to retire, ahd they usually make the offer to those who are most likely to accept it.
Especially if it's going to happen anyway ( job cuts).
It's actually a lot more respectful that just tossing someone out the door. Come on now.
The way QVC's sales and stock prices have been going lately,they must have seen the writing on the wall and waited to see what would be offered.
At thier ages it makes sense...so they took it.
Yes they wrote teary goodbyes on thier social sites, but even those who retire voluntarily have a bittersweet last day.
They are NOT going to be found living under a bridge on the PA Turnpike ( where they live in PA).
Imagine it another way.
QVC does NOT survive, and Carolyn and Dan, who clung on to the end, now say "Why DIDN'T I take that generous package when it was offered?!?!?!?"
Sheeesh.