mark.hammond (3/24/2009)
I don't believe this is the first layoff at Microsoft. A friend was laid off from their graphics department in the 1990's.
It's their first mass layoff, per what I've read.
Also, I've read that what happened is some rows in a spreadsheet got out of synch and thus some people got other people's severance pay. For some, they got more, others got less. Could happen to anyone.
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