Microsoft Seeks to Recoup Overpaid Severance

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 23, 2009 - 9:56am.
Redmond, Wash. - A month after laying off 1,400 employees, software giant Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) now says that it paid at least some of those workers too much severance, and is requesting that money back.

According to TechCrunch, the company has sent a letter to an untold number of those former employees blaming the mistake on an administrative error.

The letter reads, "We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize to any inconvenience to you."

Last month's job cuts marked Microsoft's first major force reduction in its 34-year history.

The company -- which has local offices in DC, Reston and Richmond -- plans to cut as many as 5,000 jobs by June 2010.

 

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Still Honorable and Professional compared to Crooks at CrApple

Still sounds quite professional in comparisson to the way the Criminals at Apple Inc. operate. We were laid off less than 1 week after Steve Jobs told the entire company on closed-circuit TV that there would be NO LAYOFFS. My stock options were literally STOLEN by Apple Computer Inc. and when I took them to court, they lied through their teeth and had apparently bought everyone at Palo Alto superior court. Steve Jobs, who had been served, of course got special privileges and never showed up. He never explained himself on why he lied to us and why my stock options, given to me for good performance were STOLEN, years onward. And I wonder how they stay in business when they keep college dropouts as engineers to play games all day, and let go educated and productive people. A couple of months after the lawsuit, Apple decided to "investigate" itself and of course, claimed Steve was innocent. They have so far paid out $14 million for this act of fraud and vicitims like myself still havent been compensated. Keywords: Fraud, Dan Walker, Peter Graffagnino, Haroon Sheikh, Ralf Brunner, Andrew Barnes, Steve Swen, Denise Young Smith, Michael Propst, Joni Vogel, Robin Zonic, Avie Tevanian,

Talk about rubbing salt in a wound

Unbelievable and very, very tacky. MSFT should be ashamed of itself.

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