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Comments on: Microsoft backtracks on severance issue

Redmond says laid-off workers who were accidentally paid too much will be able to keep the excess.

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by samplesize February 25, 2009 6:46 AM PST
If this has happened as often and for as long a time as it appears, it seems to be an indication that Microsoft's long known incompetence in software design extends to accounting and PR as well.

Not a good thing.

BTW, how long do you think it will be before all those who weren't unjustly rewarded by Microsoft's accounting blunder will start suing for equal, if erroneous pay?
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