THE 500-POUND POMADED PENNY PILE

Revenge is a dish best served cold—or greasy, perhaps. A Fayetteville, Georgia, man tells CBS 46 that he gave his two weeks' notice at A OK Walker Autoworks in November 2020 but hadn't been sent his last paycheck in January as promised, a fact that prodded him to reach out to the Georgia Department of Labor. Andreas Flaten did end up getting the $915 he was expecting, just in a most unexpected format. Flaten says a 500-pound pile of oil- or grease-covered pennies was left on his driveway. He tells Fox 5 Atlanta the pile of more than 90,000 coins was accompanied by an envelope with f--- you written on the outside and his final paystub within.

Fox 5 says the autoshop owner would only confirm that Flaten was paid what he was owed in US currency. As for Flaten, he says he now spends time each night working to rid the 91,515 pennies of their slick coating using a mix of dish soap, vinegar, and water. It's apparently quite the effort: He says working his way through several hundred took 90 minutes, and that he won't be able to cash them until they're clean.

To read the complete article, see:
Man Says Ex-Boss Paid Him in 500 Pounds of Gross Pennies (https://www.newser.com/story/304083/man-says-ex-boss-paid-him-in-500-pounds-of-gross-pennies.html)

Flaten’s girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, said she hopes her boyfriend’s story sheds light on how people “are treated so poorly by their employers.”

She said the pair have stopped being angry and are looking at the petty act in a positive light.

“With that many pennies, we’re bound to find a few treasures. I’ve already found one from 1937,” Oxley said. “After the first shovel full, all we could do was laugh because this poor miserable man took so much time to be vindictive and cruel. We absolutely refused to let him ruin a single moment of ours.”

To read the complete article, see:
Penny dreadful: Georgia man receives final paycheck in coins (https://apnews.com/article/georgia-man-final-paycheck-915-coins-0fe966a8ea0fbd1a9559d1222081aa5f)

Regarding the BBC News story, Arthur Shippee writes:

Dennis Tucker writes:

To read the other articles, see:
A Man Demanded His Final Paycheck. The Auto Shop Delivered 91,500 Greasy Pennies. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/business/auto-shop-pennies.html)
Georgia man receives last paycheck in oily pennies dumped on his driveway (https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-man-receives-last-paycheck-in-oill-pennies-dumped-on-his-driveway)
Auto worker employee receives 91,500 pennies in final wages (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56521173)
He demanded his last paycheck, so his ex-boss dumped 91,515 oily pennies on his driveway (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/25/he-demanded-his-last-paycheck-so-his-ex-boss-dumped-91515-oily-pennies-his-driveway/)

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