ATLANTA – A former employer owes a Georgian man $ 915 after he left his job in November last year.
But Andreas Flaten was surprised when he received his last payment: 90,000 fat-covered coins, which were delivered directly home a few days ago, according to local media reports. Above the coins was an envelope with the latest payment receipt and an explicit farewell message.
“It was quite a childish thing,” Flaten said.
Flaten said he left his job at A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City in November. The company owed his last check and had trouble receiving it, so he even had to ask for help from the Georgia Department of Labor.
In mid-March, Flaten said he left his home with his girlfriend and saw the pile of coins in his alley. He claimed that the money was covered with an oily substance.
Now, his nightly routine is to clean up the money to change it. He commented that it takes about an hour and a half to clean up a few hundred coins.
“I think there will be a lot of work for the money I have already earned,” he said. “It’s definitely not fair.”
The owner of the store, Miles Walker, spoke to WGCL-TV and said he did not know whether or not he left the money in front of Flaten’s house.
“I really don’t remember,” he said. “It doesn’t matter; it was paid for. That’s the important thing.”
Walker described Flaten as “soft.”
Flaten’s girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, said she hopes her boyfriend’s story draws attention to how some people “are mistreated by their employers.”
Oxley mentioned 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 this money, we’re sure to find some treasures. We’ve already found one from 1937,” Oxley said. “After the first hand, the only thing left for us was to laugh, because this poor bastard took all this time to be cruel and vengeful. We flatly refuse to allow him to destroy us for a single moment.”