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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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By law the guy is not obliged to pay back the money, so the charge of misappropriating fund will not stand. The company made a mistake and the company has to pay the price, not the worker who is only morally obliged to pay back the money.

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Maybe, but good luck ever getting a professional job after having that attached to your name.

12:49 PM · Jul 3, 2022Twitter Web App