Microsoft Wants Their Money Back
I guess Microsoft had a glitch (fatal error) in the accounting which doled out severance pay to several thousand employees. The mass firings were a company first, and represented a little under 5% of their total employees.
It seems that some of the employees received more than their fair share of severance monies, and the company is giving them two weeks to give it back. I think they should have just let a sleeping dog lie on this one. It’s incredibly bad PR, and not a great morale boost.
I still don’t understand why anyone could continue to have faith in this lumbering company. They just don’t innovate like Apple, in fact their products hardly change. Vista was complete failure, and Internet Explorer is like pushing a boulder up a hill. When was the last time you used your Hyper Terminal program? Do you even have a modem? Did you even think to check when you bought it.
It is painful to think that we use operating systems designed by a company that can’t issue severance checks correctly.