This leads me to speculate...
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| bigg Feb 23, 2009 10:12 AM EDT |
...that it was a bug in the software that led to the overpayment. |
| dinotrac Feb 23, 2009 10:36 AM EDT |
Here's the fun part... In my experience, employees are asked to sign an agreement that they won't bad-mouth the employer, etc,etc in return for the severance check, which the employer is not obligated to provide, thus creating a contract. If there is a contract, especially one that did not, in writing, specify the amount of the severance, good luck to Microsoft's legal beagles. Here's the problem: Whatever Microsoft may have intended, there is the little problem that the employee signing on the dotted line acts in reliance on the severance check they receive. IE, I only did it because you were paying me a gazillion dollars. We had a deal. Now -- the employee may not even have known the amount before signing, or it may simply be a matter of lotsa luck proving it, but... As Nelson would say, "Ha ha!!". |
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