A meat factory worker who was paid over 300 times his pay packet in a salary error has vanished without a trace.
The unnamed man, from Chile in South America, stopped showing up to work after he was accidently paid 165,398,851 Chilean pesos (€169,703) instead of his usual monthly pay of 500,000 Chilean pesos (€513).
The meat company, Cial, where the man worked, is now bringing legal action against their missing employee to try to recover the huge sum of money.
When a person working in administration at the company spotted that a worker was paid 330 times more than they were due, they alerted management.
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According to Chilean newspaper Diario Financiero, he was approached by management and asked to repay the money to the company.
The man agreed and said he would go to his bank the next day to make the transfer.
However, the man never showed up for work the next day prompting managers to try to contact him again.
After a number of hours, he eventually answered his phone and said that he had slept in and would go to the bank that day to return the money.
This is reportedly the last time the company had contact with the worker until he handed in his letter of resignation a few days later, on June 2.
Cial has now hired lawyers in an attempt to get the money back, alleging that a crime of misappropriation or embezzlement has taken place.
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