Those with 27 or more years of seniority may '' look at their whole picture and say , ` give me that check , I 'm out of here , ' '' said Curt Weil , a financial planner in Palo Alto , Calif. , who helped Hewlett-Packard devise its buyout plan when it cut 14,500 workers last year .
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