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Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by Barry Collins
Microsoft asks laid-off workers for its money back
Microsoft is facing the mother of all PR disasters, after it sent out letters to some of the 1,400 workers it laid off last month, asking them to return overpayments in their severance pay (source: Techcrunch.com)
The report doesn’t state how much Microsoft overpaid the fired employees, but unless it was a lottery jackpot-sized mistake, surely a company that made a profit of $4 billion in the last quarter alone could afford to put it down to experience?
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February 23rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Hmm… to experience or to expense?
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Judging by the size of the blacked out portion it must have been quite substantial! I was hoping they would blame it on a computer error, but of course they have to blame it on “an inadvertent administrative error” as opposed, presumably to a deliberate error! Bet they worked it out with Excel though!