ATLANTA – A former employer owed a Georgia man $ 915 after he left his job last November.
But Andreas Flaten was surprised when he received his final payment: 90,000 fat-covered tokens, delivered straight to his home a few days ago, according to local news reports. On top of the coins was an envelope with his last receipt and an explicit farewell message.
“It was kind of childish,” said Flaten.
Flaten said he quit his job at A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City in November. The company owed its last check and struggled to receive it, so it even had to enlist the help of the Georgia Department of Labor.
In mid-March, Flaten said he left his house with his girlfriend and saw the pile of coins in his driveway. He claimed that the pennies were covered in an oily substance.
Now his nighttime routine consists of cleaning up the pennies to change them. He noted that it takes about an hour and a half to clean a few hundred coins.
“I think it will be a lot of work for the money I have already made,” he said. “It’s definitely not fair.”
The store owner, Miles Walker, spoke to WGCL-TV and said he didn’t know if he left the pennies for Flaten’s house.
“I really don’t remember,” he said. ‘It does not matter; he was paid. That is the most important.’
Walker described Flaten as ‘soft’.
Flaten’s girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, said she hopes her boyfriend’s story will draw attention to the way some people are “abused by their employers.”
Oxley noted that the couple is no longer bothered by the situation and that they are now looking at it from a more positive perspective.
“With all that money we will certainly find some treasures. I’ve already found one from 1937,” said Oxley. After the first handful, all we had to laugh about was because this poor, miserable man took all the time to be cruel and vengeful. We flatly refuse to allow him to ruin us for a moment. ‘