foxnews.com - 2/23/2009
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Monday, February 23, 2009 What Bill Gates giveth, Bill Gates can taketh away. On Monday, it was revealed that Microsoft accidently overpaid some of the 1,400 employees it laid off last month and asked them for the money back. The company reversed course late Monday and said the laid-off ...
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Microsoft’s Money Oops!
Technology - Channel Feed —
... News today let’s us know that some of the employees affected by those layoffs were a little overpaid in their severance while others may have been underpaid. ...
Fired, Overpaid Microsoft Employees Get To Keep Money [Microsoft]
Kotaku —
... who accidentally received the overpayment, stating: "We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any overpayment to you." Said letter ended up online, and now Microsoft has a change of heart. Lisa Brummel, Microsoft's senior vice president for human resources, called most of the 25 employees, telling them they could keep the money. "I decided it didn't quite feel right," she said in an interview. Good for those 25 (lucky?) individuals. Bad for the other 1,375. Microsoft Lets Fired, Overpaid Employees Keep Extra Cash [FOX Thanks, EDGE*!]
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