“Microsoft says it made an accounting error when it laid off some employees last month and now feels the best way to correct the error is with what will likely add up to a public relations blunder,” Steven Musil reports for CNET.
“The software giant, which recently laid off 1,400 employees, sent letters this week to some of those former workers letting them know that their severance payouts were a bit too “generous” and respectfully requested that the former employees pay back that money, according to a report Saturday on TechCrunch,” Musil reports.
“An inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft,” the letter states. ‘We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to you,'” Musil reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Next time, use Numbers.
Musil reports, “A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the authenticity of a letter posted on TechCrunch, but declined further comment, saying it was ‘a private matter between the company and the affected people.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Not anymore it isn’t, assholes.
Full article here.
TechCrunch’s article is here.
MacDailyNews Take: Can’t Microsoft do anything right? Our advice to Microsoft former employees: ignore the letter. What are they going to do, fire you?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “HMCIV” for the heads up.]
