This company is paying it forward.
A Georgian man, the former chief avenger of whom paid him his final salary of $ 915 per fat cent, finally received a “real payment” thanks to the help of a coin-counting company.
The 91,515-cent Andreas Flaten cart, left at its entrance by former businessman A OK Walker Autoworks last month, was picked up Thursday and charged by Coinstar, according to a press release from the firm.
“I spent an hour or two at night trying to clean up the pennies and probably only cleaned up about $ 5,” Flaten said, according to the press release. “I was very relieved and grateful.”
On March 12, Flaten found at his Fayetteville home 500 pounds of pennies, smeared with motor oil that made them difficult to carry out.
On a note left at the top of the loot it could be read: “fk you”.
Flaten’s girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, later shared a video of the penny stack in an Instagram post that went viral, prompting Coinstar to lend a hand.
“Coinstar has been in the currency business for 30 years and we process approximately 41 billion coins annually, so collecting 91,000 cents was a whole day’s work,” the company said.
The company said it rounded the value of the cents to $ 1,000 and offered to donate the same amount to charities Flaten chose.
Flaten chose two animal shelters in the Atlanta area to receive donations, according to FOX News.
“I gave the money to Royal Animal Refuge and TLC Pet Rescue. One saved my dog and one saved my mother’s dog, ”he told the station Friday.
Flaten was reportedly promised his final check for $ 915 in January, but the money never arrived. He later said his former boss accused him of damaging the company and refused to pay him properly.