Oops! Blue Screen of Severance Error! Microsoft makes error and wants excess severance pay back!

[ddeclue]

bwa ha.. good luck with that one Microsoft.... :rofl:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Microsoft-Bungles-Severance-Asks-Laid-Off-Workers-for-Money-Back/?kc=EWKNLNAV02242009STR1

In what appears to be a clear sign of the times, Microsoft is reportedly asking laid off employees to return portions of their severance pay that the company apparently overpaid. Even the mighty amongst the tech world have been hit by the recession, as Microsoft and stalwart IBM face both layoffs and bad publicity around them.

In what appears to be a clear sign of the times, Microsoft is reportedly asking laid off employees to return portions of their severance pay that the company apparently overpaid.

TechCrunch has an item stating that Microsoft has contacted some of its former employees and is asking them to repay the software giant for overpayment on severance due to the company's own miscalculations. Indeed, the report said that not only has Microsoft apparently overpaid some of its former employees' severance, but the company also underpaid some of its recently laid off workers.

TechCrunch displays a copy of the letter Microsoft reportedly sent out to affected parties. The document reads: "This letter is to inform you that an inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft. We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to you."

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Microsoft last month announced plans to lay off up to 5,000 employees, including 1,400 the company let go on Jan. 22. If this issue of miscalculated severance pay is an indication of Microsoft's handling of its initial round of layoffs, then folks in future rounds have cause for concern. More cause, that is, than being laid off -- as asking an unemployed person to return payment is truly adding insult to injury.

Yet, it is not clear how many people were asked to pay money back to Microsoft. Though, according to TechCrunch, "it wasn’t a single isolated incident..."

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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Microsoft-Bungles-Severance-Asks-Laid-Off-Workers-for-Money-Back/?kc=EWKNLNAV02242009STR1

[MichellesBFF]

1. And

Are they going to pay the workers who were underpaid?

Bueller, Bueller...

[surrealAmerican]

2. Did those who were underpaid also receive letters?

... or were they just hoping those people wouldn't notice?

[endarkenment]

3. They've since decided not to do this.

[DevonRex]

4. Guess they shouldn't have fired the folks who knew what they were doing, huh?

:rofl:

[islandmkl]

5. Dear Microsoft:

The check is in the mail.

signed,

ex-employee