Finance/Crypto Chilean paid 330x Monthly Salary by Mistake - Resigns - Former Employer takes him to court to Recover the Excess - Loses - Says This Isn't Over

[650lb Sumo]

Man is accidentally paid 330 times his monthly salary and quits

In May 2022, his employer accidentally deposited 165 million pesos, worth about £127,000, into his account.

www.dailymail.co.uk

An office worker in Chile quit his job after being paid more than 300 times his monthly salary, then won a court battle when his bosses tried to get the money back.

The man, who worked as an assistant at food company Dan Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos de Chile, usually earned around 500,000 pesos (£386) a month. But in May 2022, his employer accidentally deposited 165 million pesos, worth about £127,000, into his account.

The firm claimed he initially agreed to return the cash during a meeting with HR. However three days later, he handed in his resignation, triggering a legal fight that dragged on for three years. Managers accused him of theft, a charge that could have seen him fined and jailed for up to 540 days.

But a judge in Santiago dismissed the case, ruling it was not theft but 'unauthorised collection,' which meant it was not a crime for the court to prosecute.

The company says it remains determined to recover the funds.

'We will take all possible legal steps, particularly an application for annulment, to have the ruling reviewed,' it said in a statement to Diario Financiero.

Santiago

 

[Jesus X]

Chileans are pretty ghetto they are usually behind burglary rings here in so.cal would not surprise me if that company sent people after this guy .

 

[650lb Sumo]

Chileans are pretty ghetto they are usually behind burglary rings here in so.cal would not surprise me if that company sent people after this guy .

I'm not familiar with Chile as such, but the thought also crossed my mind.

 

[DaleBoca]

Lol at Chileans.

That is all.

 

[650lb Sumo]

@Estemachine @olimpicus do you think this gentleman made an unwise decision?

 

[Don Quixote]

Makes me think how much this kind of stuff usually happens. I know a guy telling me a story about a time he worked at a poultry processing factory and was accidentally paid $78 dollars an hour when he was only supposed to make $11 an hour. This went on for a month before they discovered what was going on. When they confronted him about it, he played dumb saying he thought the additional was extra incentives like a production bonus. They told him they were only gonna pay him $5 dollars an hour until the negative was payed off. He quit the next day lol.

 

[Estemachine]

Chileans are pretty ghetto they are usually behind burglary rings here in so.cal would not surprise me if that company sent people after this guy .

unfortunately I have heard about this type of stuff and I'm ashamed of this group of Chilean robbers.

@Estemachine @olimpicus do you think this gentleman made an unwise decision?

I believe in karma so I would not advice to steal under any circumstances, that money he got is dirty money and it carries negative karma, one way or another he'll pay for that.

 

[Sonny Qc]

Lol, something similar happened where I was working like 15yrs ago.

A forklift driver got a paycheck of 5000ish instead of 500ish.
(accountant just put the '' , '' a digit off)

He went on a bender, when he came back to work,
they asked him to return the money to the company.

He just resigned and never came back.

Learned that (In Canada anyway)
they couldn't arrest or force someone to pay it back.
Since it wasn't stealing or the employee mistake.

 

[TheNinja]

I think here in the US there are laws to protect the company if there is an accounting error

He should have taken the money. Dumped in bitcoin for 3 years. Give the original money back and keep 2-3x the profit he made.

 

[DougieJones]

Makes me think how much this kind of stuff usually happens. I know a guy telling me a story about a time he worked at a poultry processing factory and was accidentally paid $78 dollars an hour when he was only supposed to make $11 an hour. This went on for a month before they discovered what was going on. When they confronted him about it, he played dumb saying he thought the additional was extra incentives like a production bonus. They told him they were only gonna pay him $5 dollars an hour until the negative was payed off. He quit the next day lol.

I've been overpaid a lot before. Told the company and they were like u can keep the money and we just won't pay you for the next couple weeks

 

[method115]

When I got my first real corporate job I got paid twice at the end of the year but the other paycheck was really high and I was confused. I didn't know what to do and was freaking out about whether I should keep it and realized the stress wasn't worth it so I emailed HR to let them know so I could give it back. Turns out I never took any days off that year (I was so used to working jobs that never had vacation) and they paid me for all my unused days.

Started taking vacation after that and they actually got rid of that incentive that year as well.