Microsoft has a glitch? Never
Microsoft Headquarters
This latest blunder at Microsoft – no matter how cruel it is to its recently unemployed workers – is fitting for the software giant. If you haven’t heard already, a glitch in the system gave laid off workers a larger severance than they were supposed to get. Now Microsoft is asking it back.
For years people have complained about glitches in Microsoft software. Their current mainstream operating system, Vista, may be the most notorious of recent history. Yet when a glitch in their software costs us money (lost productivity, lost information, etc), they point to the EULA and say “sorry.”
Yet Microsoft comes out and demand those former workers to return the extra money, cash, money orders, personal check. Can we rub anymore salt in the wound for these poor people! They’ve just lost their job (probably with a decent salary knowing Microsoft) in the middle of the worst recession in recent memory. Odds are they are going to have a really hard time finding work, and if they do, it may be for $7.75/hour at the local supermarket.
Microsoft does have a legitimate claim for wanting a refund, but of all companies, should Microsoft expect one?
