This is not finders keepers. The article is slightly vague, but my takeaway is that employee got raises. Those numbers went through a bunch of people. The pay

This is not finders keepers. The article is slightly vague, but my takeaway is that employee got raises. Those numbers went through a bunch of people. The pay went out for months. Then, they realized they miscalculated the raises. “Whoops, we didn’t mean to offer you $150k, but really $140k.” 1. I think they have no chance at getting back the pay from before. This isn’t a banking error, this is regret. As an employee could you be like, “whoops I messed up my budget. I wouldn’t have taken this job at $150k. Please backpay me to bring it up to $180k”. 2. It’s well studied that losses hurt more than gains feel good. People hate having their comp lowered and the stock has already fallen. May be better to leave the comp where it’s at. I mean, it’s not like it was 10x or something. The numbers were reasonable enough for this to be super wide spread and people to not notice for months.