While fat cats at the bankrupted Lehman Brothers made multimillion-dollar salaries driving the company into the ground, lower-level employees have been told their severance packages have just been yanked.
Ann Harvey, 45, of Staten Island, said she received a letter in the mail Wednesday informing her that the company had cut her off as of yesterday.
"This is terrible," she said. "I could lose my home. I can't pay my mortgage while I'm on unemployment."
Harvey, who worked as a telecommunications analyst for Lehman Brothers for 16 years, was let go in March.
In a one-page letter dated Sept. 30, Lehman told workers that it "unfortunately [was] no longer able to provide the salary continuation or other benefits" because it had declared bankruptcy.
"As a result, you will not receive a payment on October 3, 2008 or thereafter," the letter states.
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