Microsoft apologizes for severance check mishap, says laid off workers don't have to repay

Let the jokes begin:

"This is the first time that we have ever done anything large-scale like this. For a first version of something, I would say all things considered, we did a reasonably good job," said Brummel. "Unfortunately, this what I will call a small error -- but I am sure not to the individuals. Forty five out of 1,400 is unfortunate. But I think it just causes us to say we need to double check process along the way, particularly as it relates to what people get paid."

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We’ll get it right by Layoff 3.0 Enterprise Edition?

We’ll start the Trustworthy Layoff Initiative; the next few rounds of layoffs will show successively fewer overpayments than layoffs at Sun, Red Hat, and IBM.