The bosses of Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos in Chile are in search of their employee who took their money and ran off. How it happened? The company mistakenly deposited 300 times the salary for the employee in the bank account. In return, the employee promised the company to return the amount to the bank later. However, later he disappeared and sent his resignation letter to the company.
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Imagine waking up one morning and checking your bank account only to learn that you have been mistakenly paid 300 times your normal salary?
Well, one employee discovered he had been paid nearly $179,000 for a month’s work instead of the usual $540 and decided to duck and run.
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The unnamed staff member at Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos in Chile talked to his manager about the bizarre pay raise who then flagged it to HR.
He even agreed to return the cash and promised to go to the bank the following day.
However, instead of returning it back the man withdrew it and is nowhere to be seen since then.
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According to local media outlet Diario Financiero, his employer Consorcio tried to make contact with the man over the next three days but had no luck.
They later received contact from the unnamed man’s lawyers who informed Consorcio that the man had resigned from his position with the company.
Finally, after no sign of finding him, the bosses of the company decided to file a complaint against him charging the missing employee with misappropriation of funds.
The average take-home pay in Chile is $900 a month, $400 more than the unnamed man was receiving.
No new arrests have been made so far.