This firm pays it in advance.
A man from Georgia whose vengeful former boss paid him his last salary in $ 915 oily cents, finally got a ‘real payment’ thanks to the help of a coin counting company.
Andreas Flaten’s 91,515-penny wheelbarrow – which was unloaded in its driveway by former employer A OK Walker Autoworks last month – was picked up on Thursday and paid in by Coinstar, according to a press release from the firm.
“I spent an hour or two a night cleaning the cents and probably only cleaned up about $ 5,” Flaten said according to the press release. “I was so relieved and grateful.”
On March 12, Flaten choked up 500 pounds of penny with motor oil making it difficult to get money into his home in Fayetteville.
A note at the top left of the loot reads: ‘f – k you. ‘
Flaten’s girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, later shared a video of the penny pile in an Instagram message that went viral, asking Coinstar to lend a hand.
“Coinstar has been in the coin business for 30 years and we process about 41 billion coins annually, so it was a day job to pick up 91,000 pence,” the company said.
The company said it rounded up the value of the cents to $ 1,000 and offered to donate the same amount to charities of Flaten’s choice.
According to FOX News, Flaten chose two animal shelters in Atlanta to receive the donations.
‘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 on Friday.
Flaten was reportedly promised his last check for $ 915 by January, but the money never showed up. He later said his former boss accused him of damages to the company and refused to pay him properly.