Christiern Posted February 24, 2009 Report Posted February 24, 2009 Microsoft Corp. acknowledged over the weekend that it overpaid severance to some of the 1,400 employees it laid off last month and has asked the former employees to pay back the money. The company also said it had underpaid some laid-off employees. "An inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft," said one letter to an ex-employee, which was posted on the TechCrunch blog Saturday. "We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to you." Read more here. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted February 24, 2009 Report Posted February 24, 2009 (edited) The response from the overcompensated former employees: Edited February 24, 2009 by Jazzmoose Quote
ejp626 Posted February 24, 2009 Report Posted February 24, 2009 Definitely a big goof, but as reported in the Guardian, after this became public, they decided it wasn't worth the bad PR and have "forgiven" the overpayments. Of course, the former employees had better not forget to report this to the IRS. Quote
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