Georgia man receives $915 in pennies as final paycheck

I remember a story a number of years ago about a manager at a Hooters in Florida who promised a new Toyota to the top server during the next month. When the month was over he gave the winner a toy Yoda doll. She took him to court and the manager was ordered to buy her a Toyota.

 

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Years ago I worked at a Candy Company and it was policy if production broke the all time record they would get a pizza party. The shift I was on was breaking the record frequently so management challenged us a steak dinner if we met a certain number they didn't think was possible. And low and behold we made it by one pound. Management reneged on the dinner.

 

Let's not forget Oil is an environmental hazard. Look what happens at oil spills.

 

Two stories. First, in the early 90's Pepsi, as I remember it, had a campaign and TV commercial, where you bought Pepsi and saved points for gifts. In the commercial they stated that you could trade, something like 250,000 points for a Harrier Jump Jet. Well a man did just that, actually bought points from other Pepsi drinkers, turned them in and claimed the Harrier. Pepsi declined claiming it was just a joke and should have been obvious to any reasonable person. Well the courts didn't agree and ordered Pepsi to fulfill the obligation, which they could not. It was illegal for a private citizen to own active military aircraft and Pepsi had to provide equal monetary compensation. Second, a well to do gentleman who had made millions over his lifetime passed away. His three, ne'er-do-well, sons expecting to receive a windfall from his estate were shocked when the will was read. In order for them to receive their inheritance each was required to place the sum of $100,000 in his casket before burial. This as you might guess ticked them all off. The youngest son decided to deliver the required sum in $1 bills. The middle son, did one better and delivered the required sum in rolls of quarters. The eldest son, being a bit wiser, walked up to the casket, removed the bills and quarters. Took out his check book and made out a check in the amount of $300,000.00 and placed it in the casket. Upon seeing this, his siblings questioned him, saying what do you think your doing? He replied, "if he can spend that money where he's going, that check is good".

 

The second story is plagiarizing an old joke, but the way I heard it, the sons were lawyers or accountants. Anyway, I really liked your version. I also like the first one about Pepsi. In the earlier days of Pepsi and Coca Cola, there were a lot of advertising ploys. Pepsi would joke about Coca Cola and vice versa.
Mike you have a head on you. Thanks for your comments.

 

Guilty as charged. Thankfully the copy write has expired and I changed it up enough.

Is that a model of an A7 in your avatar?

 

I had a vindictive boss like that. He didn't figure on his lowly employee having a best friend who was an attorney that had won cases at the state supreme court, and who gladly worked for free to help stick it to this guy. It was over $382.50 from a $6 million/year company. He didn't pay in pennies, but imagining him being forced to sign that check is priceless.

 

It is the F-4S Phantom II. I bought a curio cabinet to store my models. It came with a lock to keep my grandchildren from destroying to models. I built the F-4 about 7 Years ago. It is a 1/48 Scale Hasegawa Kit. I thought about changing my Avatar to another one of my models. Thanks for your comment.

 

I saw this newspaper article and thought that copper or, in this case, probably zinc would not be valid debt payment since the pennies were no "Specie" that I thought was set out in the original coin act. I went to the current instructions and it seems that pennies are good for payment. Which is it?
Second thought is that dumping oily/greasy materials in the environment is a violation of the Clean Water Act and ,depending on the state, violation of hazardous waste disposal rules.
Third thought is trespass.
Fourth thought is about the 'boss' best left unsaid.

 

This was my last paycheck and I love it!!!!!!!!!.

 

I thought it might be the Phantom but wasn't sure. From "The Great Santini". Great movie. If you served, thanks.

 

Since the coinage act of 1965 all US coins, whenever made or whatever composition, have had full unlimited legal tender status.

 

The F-4S Phantom II that I modelled is a Navy jet. The Great Santini was a Marine Pilot, however, they both flew the F-4S, which was the latest version until it was retired.

 

The F-4 Phantom was a hell of a jet, but the initial lack of guns was a real biter in 'Nam when you couldn't get a missile lock on a MiG-17 and needed the guns that the service thought were obsolete. Robin Olds was an ace in the F-4 during the war and his aircraft is in the National Air Force Museum in Dayton.

 

Congress knows better what our airplanes need to protect themselves.

 

How ya like them? I use to build, but my fingers don't work like they use to, nor my eyes.

 

One thing not stated in the article is where the employer got the $915 in pennies.

 

I once got $180 in pennies from one of my banks, they came in three $50 bags and one $30 bag. That was an accumulation they had built up over several months. Usually if you go into banks these days you are lucky if you can get a box of pennies ie $25 or 2500 coins. Since pandemic banks have been a bit tight on letting coin out in quantity.

The owner of the auto repair place may have gone to a lot of trouble to be a b-hole but all it really accomplished for him is a tonne of negative publicity in the media.

 

I hope you quit that job soon after. That's garbage (to put it nicely).

 

Not right away but three years after. Job market at time wasn't so good it was during the great Recession. But when I finally left I really gave HR a piece of my mind during my exit interview. This company had a lot of contempt for its workers and three years after I left it closed it's doors and move the jobs out of state.