Ga. man swaps 90,000 pennies he got as final pay from ex-employer for a check

[left-of-center2012]

A global company has stepped in to solve quite a “coinundrum” for a Georgia man. Andreas Flaten’s former employer dumped at least 90,000 pennies on his driveway last month as a form of final payment for his work at an auto shop, he said.

When Bellevue, Washington-based Coinstar heard about his predicament, they decided that change was needed. They picked up Flaten’s coins on Thursday and rounded up the amount to give him a $1,000 check. They also made donations to two charities of Flaten’s choosing: two animal shelters. “Coinstar has been in the coin business for 30 years and we process approximately 41 billion coins annually – so picking up 91,000 pennies was all in a day’s work,” Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity said in a statement.

Flaten said his former employer (‘A OK Walker Autoworks’ in Peachtree City, GA) owed him $915 after he left his job there in November. He finally got his pay earlier this month in the form of thousands of oil- or grease-covered pennies dumped at the end of his driveway in Fayetteville, Georgia. Atop the pile: an envelope with Flaten’s final paystub and a goodbye note that featured an obscenity.

The owner of the shop, Miles Walker, told WGCL-TV that he didn’t know if he did or didn’t drop the pennies off at Flaten’s house.
“I don’t really remember,” Walker said. “It doesn’t matter. He got paid ($915 in pennies), that’s all that matters.”


(Olivia Oxley via AP)AP

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/04/thanks-to-coin-firm-ga-man-swaps-90000-pennies-he-got-as-final-pay-from-ex-employer-for-a-check.html

[left-of-center2012]

1. https://aokwalker.com/

https://aokwalker.com/

[EYESORE 9001]

4. Walker? I'd name them 'wanker' instead

I hope this means only admiring assholes patronize the business.

[PatSeg]

2. The owner "doesn't remember"???

Seriously? Could he be any more petty or obnoxious?

[dsc]

6. The person who got the pennies doesn't seem like the kind

but I would be off to small claims, with a tape of him saying I don't remember, and suing him for the $915.

[PatSeg]

9. Ha, ha, ha!!!

Really, would have been so hard to just cut a check for $915? It certainly took far more time and effort to deliver 90,000 pennies to the guy's driveway. Now the idiot is famous and not in a good way.

[LakeArenal]

3. A-not OK had to order those pennies.

He had to unwrap those pennies, cover them with oil and deliver those pennies.

Who won that round? Not A-OK. Losers.

[ratchiweenie]

5. That must have been some beef between them for the guy to go to so much

trouble. In the end, the employer was the loser though.

[csziggy]

10. In earlier articles, the former employee said he quit because of the toxic workplace

Apparently "OK Walker" is a real jerk and is an abusive boss.

https://www.cbs46.com/news/nearly-1-000-worth-of-oily-pennies-used-to-pay-former-employee/article_54edc062-86cc-11eb-8efb-a7c018fb76b3.html

[Blue Owl]

7. Man that wheelbarrow's gonna weigh a ton

[Worried2020]

16. Closer to 1/4 ton . . .

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Yeah boredom has me doing some strange things lately . . . .

So I did a wee bit of Googling and calculating

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There are approximately 145 copper pennies in a pound. (pre 1986)

90,000 pennies would weigh 620.6896551724138#
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There are approximately 181 copper plated zinc pennies in a pound.

90,000 pennies would weigh 497.2375690607735#
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https://www.parkpennies.com/penny/pennies-per-pound.htm



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[multigraincracker]

8. Scrap value of almost a cent and half for each.

Today it is illegal to scrap them in this country, but can be smuggled into to Canada or Mexico.
Like what happened to gold, some day it will be worth it to have them saved up.
just have to sort out pre 1986 ones.

[central scrutinizer]

11. I don't think that's true for post 1982 pennies

They’re 97.5% zinc with copper coating. Pre 1982 pennies are 95% copper.

[chowder66]

12. Good on Coinstar!

[Delphinus]

15. True!

They were calm and cool, as was the person who received them.

[Buns_of_Fire]

13. I guess a letter of reference is out of the question. nt

[lame54]

14. That accounts for the coin shortage