90,000 coins received as a salary▶ Click here for a larger view
After an employee quits the company, he doesn’t pay his salary and is reported to the government.
According to the New York Times (NYT) on the 25th (local time), the president of the’Okay Walker Luxury Repair Shop’, a luxury vehicle repair shop in Peachtree City, Georgia, recently put coins in the driveway in front of the house of former employee Andreas Platen. I piled up like that.
Platen, who worked as a repair shop manager, left the company in November last year after having a discord with the representative because the promised 5pm at the time of the contract was not kept well.
After that, he reported to the Ministry of Labor when he did not receive his 915 dollars (approximately 1,040,000 won) overdue wages for three months.
Then, on the 12th, a man who appears to be a repair shop employee came to Plateton and said, “Your money is at the end of the driveway,” and then went back.
When I went to the driveway, I saw a stack of 1-cent coins and a white envelope with pay stubs on top. The envelope was written with blatant profanity.
Salary envelope specification with profanity written on it▶ Click here for a larger view
Platen didn’t count the exact number of coins, but estimates that if it were actually $915, it would have reached 91,000.
Moreover, there was a liquid that smelled badly on the coin, and when I looked closely, it was like’power steering oil’ that was injected when the steering wheel was moved.
This story was made known by Platen’s girlfriend posting the story along with a coin photo on Instagram and reported in the media.
Platen and his girlfriend loaded the coins into a handcart, moved them to the garage, and cleaned the oiled coins one by one for two hours.
He was angry and thought about how to sue the business, but when he heard that this was not illegal, he quit.
The US Department of Labor responded to a press question about whether it was legal to pay employee salaries in oiled one-cent coins, “there is no regulation specifying what type of currency the salary should be paid.”
In an interview with the local media CBS46, Miles Walker, the owner of the maintenance shop, replied that he did not remember leaving a pack of 1 cent coins in front of the retired employee’s house.
Still, he added, “It’s not really important. It’s important that he got the money.
When this news was announced through the media, netizens came up with an opinion, “Let’s pay for the maintenance shop in 1 cent coins” and “Where is the salary paid with coins?”
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