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Published on: 2/23/2009
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Lisa Brummel, Microsoft's senior vice president for human resources, said the letters were mailed to 25 of the 1,400 people let go in January.
Most of the checks were off by about $4,000 to $5,000, she said.
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Brummel said she learned of the letters over the weekend after one appeared on the technology blog TechCrunch.
"I decided it didn't quite feel right," she said in an interview.
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Brummel called the glitch a clerical error, and said that at some point in the process of calculating severance packages, communicating with employees and cutting checks, "we had payments misaligned with people's names.
(Brummel said she didn't know whether an Excel spreadsheet was at the root of the problem.)