Some of Microsoft's first 1,400 laid off employees received a bigger severance pay than expected. The next 3,600 will not be so lucky!
[Update: In an interesting reversal, Microsoft said it will not attempt to recoup the overpaid severance money from the 25 recently laid-off workers. Why did it way so long to do the right thing? It couldn't be that much anyway :-]
The post was originally published on Monday, February 23th.
Over the weekend, Microsoft confirmed it sent out letters to some of its 1,400 ex-employees that were let go last January to return some of their generous severance pay!
Could this have been a bug in Windows, Excel…?
Pointing to an “inadvertent administrative error”, the software company “overpaid” the sacked employees. But now it wants its money back, recession oblige!
Personally, I’ll keep the money and point back to some “mailing error” 
3,600 more employees are expected to leave the company by the end of the year. Make sure you are not “underpaid” this time.
Microsoft bugs are usually hard to predict!
