MARIETTA, Ga.: A global company has stepped in to solve quite a coinundrum for a Georgia man.
Andreas Flatens 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 Flatens coins on Thursday and rounded up the amount to give him a $1,000 check.
They also made donations to two charities of Flatens 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 days work, Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity said in a statement.
Flaten said his former employer A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City 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 Flatens final paystub and a goodbye note that featured an obscenity.
Flaten had been spending an hour or two every night trying to clean the pennies, which he stored in a wheelbarrow in his garage.
The owner of the shop, Miles Walker, told WGCL-TV that he didnt know if he did or didnt drop the pennies off at Flatens house.
I dont really remember, Walker said. It doesnt matter. He got paid, thats all that matters.
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