AN office worker was accidentally paid 330 times his usual wage – but then got to keep it after he quit his job.
The man had worked as an assistant at food company Dan Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos de Chile.
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He usually raked in around 500,000 pesos (£386) a month for his work.
But then one time, he got a lucky payday.
His boss accidentally sent 165 million pesos (about £127,000) to his account.
Initially, the company claimed he agreed to return the money in a consult with HR.
But three days later, the employee handed in his resignation.
But, the bosses went after him, leading to a three year long legal battle.
The managers accused him of theft, which could have seen him handed a fine and jailed for as much as 540 days.
However, the worker found himself in luck.
A judge in Santiago dismissed the case, ruling it was not actually theft.
It was deemed “unauthorised collection,” meaning it was not a crime for their court to prosecute.
But the company is determined to get their money back nontheless.
“We will take all possible legal steps, particularly an application for annulment, to have the ruling reviewed,” the firm told Diario Financiero.
It comes after calling your boss a “d***head” was not deemed to be a sackable offence by an employment tribunal.
The insult would not necessarily amount to gross misconduct if uttered “in the heat of the moment”, the tribunal said.
It results from a case where office manager Kerrie Herbert lashed out during a meeting in 2022.
She feared she was about to be laid off from building firm Main Group Services.
When issues about her performance were voiced, she began crying.
The Cambridge tribunal heard she then said: “If it was anyone else in this position they would have walked years ago due to the goings-on in the office, but it is only because of you two d**heads I stayed.”
Her boss replied: “Don’t call me a f***ing d***head or my wife. That’s it, you’re sacked. Pack your kit and f*** off.”
Herbert said she asked if he was really firing her, and her boss said: “Yes I have, now f**k off.”
Ms Herbert’s contract said she could be fired for insulting language but with prior warning.
She sued for unfair dismissal and was awarded £29,129 in compensation and costs.
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