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What would you do if you checked your bank account and found you had mistakenly been paid 300 times your normal salary? 😳 Well, this happened to an employee and he decided to cut and run. Intrigued? So were we 👇

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Worker who was accidentally paid 300 times his salary takes the money and runs

The lucky man hasn't been seen or heard from ever since the payment.

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The man discovered he had been paid nearly £150,000 for a month’s work (!) instead of the usual £450. The unnamed staff member at Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos in Chile did initially raise the eye-watering overpayment for May with his manager who then flagged it to HR.

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I would have immediately returned it. I could not live with the fact that I was dishonest. that's jut me Bible says you reap what you sow.

JSON Baumgartner

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Yeah, 150k sounds like a lot on paper but you can burn through that in just a couple years. If you're going to take off, you need serious fuck you money -- like 15 million. Then we'll talk.

12:44 PM · Jul 3, 2022Twitter Web App