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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 👇

metro.co.uk

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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He's going to find out real fast that the constant anxiety of getting caught for years and years isn't worth the 150k. He'll blow through it in less than a year if he took it and ran. It shows he already has 0 financial sense. Now if it was 15 million, that's a bit different.

12:46 PM · Jul 3, 2022Twitter Web App