There is always a bad penny, but for a man from Georgia, there were 91,515.
Andreas Flaten left his job at A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City in November, but getting his last paycheck was not easy, Flaten told local media and even called the Georgia Department of Labor.
Finally, on March 12, his $ 915 salaries arrived at his home in Fayetteville, more specifically at his entrance, in the form of tens of thousands of cents.
Adding insults to the already toxic environment, the approximately 500 kilos of cents had also been greased with motor oil, a pollutant toxic to groundwater.
The dump also came with a note that simply said “f – – k you.”
The situation drew attention when Flaten’s girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, shared a video of the penny stack in an Instagram post in which she explains the circumstances of her partner’s departure, including the detail she allegedly he had given “a written letter of resignation” two weeks in advance.
“Those two weeks became five days,” he alleged, due to Walker’s harassment. “Miles Walker of A OK Walker Autoworks continued to be the hole he makes and does on a normal work day, making unnecessary comments about my boyfriends’ daughter and just being an all around d – – k.”
Oxley was also dismayed by his dedication to the joke, which required him to carry a quarter of a ton of coin. “I mean … couldn’t I have been angry about the check or something?” she wrote.
In an interview with CBS46 in Atlanta, Flaten claimed that his former manager of the “toxic” work environment was known to have harassed his workers, including a former employee who claims that his boss once shaved him in front of him. of his colleagues.
When journalist Jamie Kennedy located the manic mechanic, he removed him.
“Get the f – – k from my property. And know that if someone is able to make that kind of deal, there is a motivating factor, ”the bitter head said.
“It doesn’t matter: he charged, that’s all that matters. He is kind, even for having raised him, “he added.
“That’s a childish thing,” Flaten later told Fox5. “I think that’s going to take a lot of work for money I’ve already worked for.”
According to a Times investigation into the strange quarrel, Flaten had decided to leave his place at A OK, as he and his manager were in a dispute over his schedule, which required a difficult time to pick up his son from the kindergarten. After continually ignoring this promise, as well as several other intense exchanges, he told the Times that he submitted his resignation.
Despite negative publicity, including the recent posting of a star’s comments on Yelp, a car store receptionist told a Times reporter the business was booming.
Meanwhile, Flaten and Oxley continue to make their way through a wheelbarrow of copper coins, cleaning each 1-cent piece by hand with an old cloth. It takes about two hours to polish € 5.
And there’s nothing they can do, according to U.S. Department of Labor spokesman Eric R. Lucero, who told the Times, “There’s nothing in the regulations that dictates in what currency you have to pay to the employee “.