ATLANTA (AP) – A man from Georgia said his former employer owed him a handsome penny, $ 915 to be exact, after quitting his job in November.
But Andreas Flaten said he was shocked to see his final payment: 90,000 cents covered in oil or grease at the end of his garage earlier this month, the media reported. At the top of the pile was an envelope with Flaten’s final paycheck and an explicit farewell message.
“This is a childish thing to do,” said Flaten.
Flaten said he left his job at A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City in November. He said he owed the final check and had a hard time getting it, even going to the Georgia Department of Labor for help.
In mid-March, Flaten said on leaving the house with his girlfriend, that he noticed the pile at the end of his driveway. He said the coins were covered with some kind of oily substance.
Now, your nightly routine consists of cleaning the pennies so you can change them. He said it took about an hour and a half to clean several hundred.
“I think it will be a lot of work for the money I already worked for,” he said. “It is definitely not fair.”
Store owner Miles Walker spoke briefly to WGCL-TV, saying he did not know whether he left or left the coins at Flaten’s home.
“I don’t really remember,” said Walker to the TV station. “It doesn’t matter if he was paid, that’s all that matters.”
Walker went on to call Flaten “weenie”.
Flaten’s girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, said she hoped her boyfriend’s story would clarify how people “are treated so badly by their employers”.
She said the pair has stopped being angry and is looking at the petty act in a positive way.
“With so many cents, we are going to find some treasures. I already found one from 1937, ”said Oxley. “After the first full shovel, all we could do was laugh, because this poor miserable man took too long to be vindictive and cruel. We adamantly refuse to let him ruin a single moment of ours. “