Every employee eagerly waits for the time when his salary comes into his account after a month of hard work, but what will be your reaction if your account receives many times more than your salary?
That is what happened in Chile, where a company mistakenly deposited an amount equal to 300 salaries in the account of its employee, after which the employee resigned from the company and disappeared.
In May 2022,a worker in a cold meat manufacturing company reported to the deputy manager that there was something wrong with the payment of his salary as he was paid 165,398,851 Chilean pesos ($180,418) instead of 500,000 Chilean pesos ($545). have been paid.
As the transfer of an excessive amount was due to a technical glitch, the company asked the employee to go to the bank and produce a voucher in the name of the company to refund the excessive amount.
The employee said that he would go to the bank and do the necessary work to get the refund, which the company was satisfied with and he had no worries, as the employee was very comfortable agreeing to refund all the extra money.
The next day, the company tried to contact the employee but he could not be contacted. Later, the employee himself contacted the company and said that he would be going to the bank soon. He subsequently offered a resignation in a letter sent by his lawyer in June 2022.
The employee refused to return the money to the company, upon which the company decided to take legal action to recover its money. But the newspapers said he hasn’t been heard from since then.