Mistakes

What should you do when you are asked to repay an overpayment of severance?

Posted February 23, 2009 - 00:51 by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Career and Income, Consumer Affairs

TechCrunch recently reported that the software giant Microsoft made mistakes on the severances it paid to its laid off workers. As a result, Microsoft sent out letters to an unknown amount of employees asking for a repayment of the overage. This has happened before in many other companies, and it is bound to happen again in the current economic climate. So what should a laid off worker do when his or her former employer comes knocking for the money paid by mistake?

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Like DIY? Avoid these TEN costly mistakes.

Posted 2 years ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: DIY

Duuuhhhhh

I love DIY. I’m completely awful at it, but as I’m thrifty I’d much rather do something myself than pay someone else three times as much to do it. But here’s the rub. You can end up costing yourself more in the long run by doing it yourself. So, I scoured the web looking for the obvious and not-so-obvious mistakes DIY addicts make and compiled this list.

PLUS, as a special treat for you all, I’ve included a video at the end of home improvement mishaps, or DIY inaction in action. Better not watch it if you don’t like seeing folks screw up. Anyway, be a safe DIYer and enjoy the smell of sawdust in the morning.

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