Microsoft needs the money back

BILLMCC66 · Feb 24, 2009

I came across this when reading the net.
Maybe MS is feeling the crunch.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10169119-75.html?part=rss http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/MSN_Emoticons/MSN-Emoticon-040.gif

Clark_Kent · Feb 24, 2009

This has change now they can KEEP the money now, since this had go public.....

joey off the street · Feb 24, 2009

This coming from a company that's worth billions? The word GREED keeps cropping up in discussions like this. How do the MS higher echelon sleep at night?

oma · Feb 24, 2009

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10170025-56.html

On Monday, Microsoft human resources chief Lisa Brummel said the company was reversing course.

"I thought it didn't make sense for us to continue on the path we were on," she told CNET News. Twenty-five workers were overpaid and about 20 underpaid, Microsoft said.

Brummel said she has spoken or left messages to most of those affected.

Brummel said those overpaid received, on average, about $4,000 or $5,000 in extra pay.
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It was just ridiculous in requesting the 25 overpaid workers to pay back those small amounts. Micro$oft only reversed their action due to the publicity this caused.

DavidGP · Feb 24, 2009

40 or so workers affected both negitively and positively and as Clark mentioned its resolved http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10170025-56.html?tag=mncol;txt was it done to save Microsofts face, possibly but many companies do the same so they are not unique, just in the line of fire. No real difference to your Tax office asking for small amounts back etc, the mistake should never have happened in the first place and knowing that anyone who is laid off and recieves a letter like this for monies back will actively pop this news into the press, so they really need to look into their acounting office practices and checks.

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Microsoft needs the money back

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