Swiss rolling in it after Zurich city staff paid double due to computer glitch

A file photo of the Limmat river, the Grossmuenster and the city are seen early morning in Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich municipal employees were paid their salaries twice on Feb 26 ‘due to a technical processing error’, the city’s finance department said. — Reuters

ZURICH: Some 30,000 Zurich municipal employees were paid their February salary twice following a computer glitch, with many seeing the funny side on Feb 27 despite having to pay the extra money back.

Staff were paid twice on Feb 26 “due to a technical processing error”, the city’s finance department said in a statement, in a blunder that saw an extra 175mil Swiss francs (RM946.85mil) going out the door.