Man gets accidentally paid 300x his salary, immediately vanishes. Huat ah!

[TheGreatWhite]

Chilean man who was accidentally paid 330 times his salary resigns, then vanishes​

Instead of his normal $555 paycheck, he received $180,000.​

BY
CHRIS MORRIS
June 28, 2022 10:28 AM EDT

It’s always nice to see a little extra in your paycheck, but one employee at a Chilean company got the pay bump of a lifetime last month.

The unnamed worker at Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos (Cial), which makes cold cuts, normally received a paycheck of roughly 500,000 Chilean pesos (about $555) direct-deposited to his account. In the most recent pay period on May 30, though, a screwup in the company’s HR department resulted in him getting a check for $165,398,851 (a whopping $183,593), reports Diario Financiero, a Santiago-based newspaper.

Whoops.
He took the matter to a manager to report the overpayment, which is when the HR error was discovered. The company then told him to go to his bank to initiate the return of the money. He promised to go there the next day. And that’s exactly what he did.

Since then, no one at the company has heard from the worker.
While a windfall like that would be huge in any country, it’s especially notable in Chile, where the average worker takes home roughly $1,000 U.S. per month, according to Take-Profit.org.

https://fortune.com/2022/06/28/chilean-man-paid-330-times-salary-resigns-disappears/

 

[Hypocrite-The]

As long as it's legal for him to hold the money....he did the right thing