A Georgia man who was having trouble getting his employer’s last paycheck was shocked to discover the equivalent of pennies thrown in his garage earlier this month.
Andreas Flaten of Fayetteville had left his job at A OK Walker Luxury Autoworks Autoworks in November 2020.
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He told local WGCL-TV that he had been in the auto shop for a year – and had known his boss Miles Walker for eight years – but that “toxic” working conditions affected him.
He gave his two-week notice, writing a letter of resignation to Walker, who allegedly promised that Flaten’s $ 915 final check would be paid to him in January.
But in January, the check never came, and Flaten said his former boss accused him of damages.
The pile of coins at the entrance to Andreas Flaten’s garage (Credit: Olivia Oxley)
He even called the Georgia Department of Labor for help on the matter, without much luck.
Months later, Flaten and his girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, were leaving his house when he noticed something at the end of his garage: over 91,000 pennies covered in oil or grease and an envelope with his final payment receipt that was addressed with an explicit message: “F — you!”
The cents weigh more than 500 pounds in total, according to Fox 5 Atlanta, breaking the wheels of Flaten’s wheelbarrow.
Dismayed by the incident, Oxley took videos of the scene to social media, writing on Facebook that “no one like that deserves to have [a] successful business. “
Flaten called the move “childish” and noted that cleaning the pennies “would be a lot of work” for the money he had already earned.
Now his nights are spent cleaning the coins for hours on end so he can exchange them.
Oxley declined to comment to Fox News on Thursday, explaining that the pair would concentrate their energies on finding resources to get a “real payment” for Flaten’s final check.
Walker declined to comment.
The place where the pennies were thrown (Credit: Olivia Oxley)
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Walker spoke briefly to WGCL-TV, stating that he did not know whether he left or did not leave the coins at Flaten’s home.
“I don’t really remember,” Walker told the TV station. “It doesn’t matter if he was paid, that’s all that matters.”
Walker went on to call Flaten a “cat”.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.