Microsoft asks some laid-off workers to send back part of their severance

[jiro]

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Oops: Microsoft Asks Some Laid Off Workers To Send Back Part Of Their Severance
Talk about adding insult to injury. Apparently Microsoft has inadvertently overpaid severance to some of its recently laid off employees, and is now asking for some of the money back. It’s unclear how many of the 1,400 employees laid off last month were affected, but we’ve confirmed that it wasn’t a single isolated incident (we’ve contacted Microsoft for a response). We’re also hearing that some employees may have been underpaid as well.

While the payroll error must be irritating in and of itself to these laid off workers (severance is a sensitive subject), it appears that Microsoft HR isn’t even bothering to explain how it happened (employees are instructed to call the office, which is closed for the weekend, if they want to know the details). Given that it was Microsoft HR that screwed this up in the first place, you’d think they’d at least include the calculations they made and point out where the error took place.


source: Oops: Microsoft Asks Some Laid Off Workers To Send Back Part Of Their Severance



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it's probably one of those microsoft bug. ^_^
the amount was probably too big and worth the shame.
if you look at the $, it looks like a 5-8 ($######.##) digit numbers.

[nirdle_phogi]

untwa.? hahah.. joke joke joke man ni oie..

[AMD_infinium05]

pag sure Bill gates uy... are you guys kidding?

[eax]

I thought dili tihik ang M$.

[mannyamador]

Do they use Excel at Microsoft? Maybe they ought to switch to Gnumeric or OpenOffice Calc!

[jiro]

update ^_^
Microsoft drops payback demand on ex-workers
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has dropped an attempt to recoup some severance money from 25 recently fired workers it mistakenly overpaid.

The Redmond, Washington-based company, which announced a plan to cut up to 5,000 jobs in January, acknowledged on Sunday that it had tried to get the overpaid workers to return the extra money. But late on Monday, it reversed course.

"This was a mistake on our part," said a Microsoft spokesman in an e-mailed statement. "We should have handled this situation in a more thoughtful manner."

Microsoft is "reaching out to those impacted to relay that we will not seek any payment from those individuals," according to the statement.

The company did not say what caused the original error in severance payments, or what the amounts involved were.

The world's largest software maker, feeling the downturn in corporate and consumer spending, laid off 1,400 workers last month, the first of the up to 5,000 jobs it plans to cut over the next 18 months.

(Editing by Bernard Orr)


Microsoft drops payback demand on ex-workers | U.S. | Reuters

[flanker]

separation pay nlang ni oi.

[HenryLiwanag]

that's weird. it is very very funny that mistakes will be committed in such very delicate process. I personally find it hard to believe that such error would happen.

As for MS if it is true, they cannot force people to return the money because there is usually a quit claim [legal] document once you receive the money. bonus na lang na oi.

[kokoytoyi]

hatag bawi!? faetz?

Gidaginot pa jud tawn nila.

[seven_segment]

asa i-uli...hehehe