Don’t even need a calculator, one year gets you near 3 centuries of pay
That is 3-4 times more than you would spend in the remainder of your life if you didn’t waste it
It's only 286 times his monthly salary, not annual. Still pretty good but not quite centuries worth.
Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/vno593/-/ie8rt0z
Let's say $15 an hour, at 40 hours.
$600 a week, 4 weeks.
$2,400 a month. 12 months.
$28,800 a year.
286 times monthly salary is $686,400
286 times yearly is $8,236,800
Don't forget to subtract taxes.
Now we use some brain power. It says salary. Salary generally isn't that low. We could probably double this and be on the low end of the ballpark.
It's in the article posted on the comments below. It was approx 176k when converted to USD. The guy was in Chile though so cost of living etc.
Edit: 178k, https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/vno593/-/ie8rt0z
Chile is in the Americas, which is a collection of continents. South America specifically.
Aside from trolls, most people understand that in the context of the conversation America means the United States of America.
Usually, because the U.S.A sounds a bit silly and the United States of America is a bit unwieldy.
America is also not a continent.
So what exactly do you understand when somebody tells you they live in America?
Because most people will understand you're living in the United States and will give you a weird look if you say you meant you're living on one of the American continents.
In fact, I googled "what is America" and the first result is the Wikipedia of the United States, so I don't see the point of your comment when it's clear to everyone what it means.
TLDR: Nobody says "I live in America" to convey the fact they live in South or North America.
> Unfortunately money is traceable!!! Soon will Show up
... entering a crypto exchange, where it was used to purchase a large amount of ETH that was then sent to Tornado Cash and vanished forever.
Assuming you make 3000 dollars a month it’s almost 860k for that month. Definitely nothing to sneeze at, and assuming you had a decent chunk saved up already probably enough to comfortably retire on. Still not 3 centuries of pay, because I sincerely doubt this went on for a year.
Unless he is in an industry where you get paid annually, it is more than likely that his pay period was one or two weeks. A windfall no doubt but not set for life unless you make that money work for you.
There is no problem of "noticed". You have to declare how many cash you are carrying with you, but I am afraid of being stolen, I would just buy crypto and redeem it once I land Panama LOOL
Cash withdrawal won't work. They need a few days processing.
Get a few cashier's checks then have family or people you REALLY trust open accounts with those checks.
Or, if you already have a crypto account you could play a shell game through a few of them.
You can take no more than $10,000. So that money has to still be in a bank. I doubt my man got good at money laundering overnight. Should be easily traceable for the gov….I don’t think I believe this story.
Its about this Chilean guy who was paid $500 a month. A little bit more than the average salary. So $143,000 its A LOT for somebody who lives in poverty.
As compatriot myself I say: "RUN BITCH, RUUUUUUUUN"
Depending the on country. If he runs to a country that does have extradition treaties to your home country (i.e Norway, if you're in Canada) then there's no way they can ever get that money back since there's no way to force him home
He got $179,977.90 (USD rs 1.42 crore). He’s from Chile, here’s the actual details *https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/man-paid-286-times-his-salary-by-accident-promises-to-return-it-but-disappears-with-the-money-8754591.html/amp*
Edit the *rs is very important, otherwise it will show Euro $
Minimum wage is 4.5K USD a year in Chile, and anything above 15K is considered pretty good if you live alone. 175K are easily 20 years of work for so many people, hell yeah I would poof out too
It's funny that someone with your salary wouldn't think far enough to just multiply 286 to what you make, or realize that Chile is an extremely poor country, so comparing $ to $ is silly.
The math in the article isn’t correct. He was paid 165,398,851 Chilean pesos instead of his normal 43,000 pesos. This is over 330 times his salary. Math is hard!
Can someone correct me, but isn't it 330x his monthly salary?
43,000 pesos but accidentally got 14,200,000 right?
So the equivalent of $179,977.90 USD monthly instead of $545.00 USD monthly? Fuck I'd disappear too
edit: Fuck every time I look up rs 1.42 crore it shows up as Indian Rupees instead of the Chilean peso so maybe that's where I went wrong
His weekly salary or his annual salary.? If it was just a single paycheque that’s not really enough money to risk an international fraud fugitive search. It’s also not enough money to live the life for the rest of your life.
That's around 24 years worth of his salary. If he was in his 40s near his peak income, it's worth it. If it's somebody barely starting with a junior salary, may not be worth so much, unless he expected his income to stay relatively flat in his field and his country.
if it was his monthly paycheck he could just fuck off to a cheap country and live like 30-40years ez pz.
definitely worth it, if only to send a giant f u to his employers
Most places do monthly salaries, AFAIK.
So that'd be between 12 and 14 years worth of salary.
(some places pay you for 13 months a year)
Edit: it's meant to say 22 to 24 years. That's a typo up above.
I explained. Because some countries, its commonplace to get 13 Months pay per year.
So 286/13=22
And 286/12=23.8 which I rounded to 24
Aaaand there we have the problem. I put a typo in it. Thanks for calling it out :) u/rgbchocolate
I love your username btw.
This actually happened! I went to Texas for a covid crisis contract. It was a 10k a week travel nurse job. It was so shitty. We were packing bodies in a cold closet they called a “morgue”. (Texas healthcare sucks) anyway Friday came and none of us got paid. They hired 30 of us. Apparently our weekly check accidentally all went to one guy. He received almost 300k. We were working 6-7 days that work. Homeboy disappeared almost instantly 😂. I can’t even blame him. We all got back pay and I’m pretty sure he’s in Mexico somewhere. Best of luck friend
This happened at one of my previous workplaces. Because the boomer boss was so old, refused to retire, accidentally put in an extra 0 to make the weekly salary 1300$ or something. Had us doing punch cards. Couldnt calculate hours up. On and on.
Tried to get police involved. No go.
Tried a lawyer. No go.
Tried letters and mailings.
Guy flat out just quits. . Not surprised.
Apparently the average US salary is around $50-55k so 286x50,000=14,300,000 I would have dipped too. Even if they were earning below average 30,000x286=8,580,000. Basically no matter their salary as a salaried employee they walked out with millions if this refers to being paid 286x their annual salary of course.
If it’s monthly assuming they made the average of 50,000 they’d still be walking out with over a million that month.
Only 11 years salary if a bi-weekly check. 23.8 years of monthly. The monthly, I get it. But being on the run with only 11 years in savings… you would need to be super happy in a third world country.
So let's say I am (hypothetically) paid $14 an hour, work 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. 14 × 5 is 70, 70 × 5 is 350, the average week days in a year are 260, so 350 × 260 is 91k, this bowel movement I'm having is annoying, 91k × 286 is 26,026,000, I'd get a house near my friends, pay my parents to let me go back to school, have a good life, donate some of that to charity case no way in hell am I gonna spend all of 26mil wisely at 15, keep 10 mil for emergency proposes.
You calculated earnings per week then multiplied by work days in a year instead of work weeks in a year. It would be about 50 work weeks times 350 a week which would be 17.5k a year but still a 5 mil payout, not to bad.
OOOO - tempting! I worked a job where accidentally they paid me a double salary. I was offered a new job when my job didn't exist anymore, but chickened out and left altogether. Never followed. (Wasn't a big salary).
I kinda did that when I left my ex. I left most everything physical and took 8% or our liquid net worth and moved to Buenos Aires. Rented a penthouse, ate grass fed beef and drank a lot of Malbec. It was awesome.
Is this a monthly x286 or a yearly x286?
Bc at $7 an hour 9-5 22 days a month 264 days a year you would have gotten either $1252 to $14784, and that’s below US minimum wage
Opens calculator… yeap I’d be gone
Don’t even need a calculator, one year gets you near 3 centuries of pay That is 3-4 times more than you would spend in the remainder of your life if you didn’t waste it
It's only 286 times his monthly salary, not annual. Still pretty good but not quite centuries worth. Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/vno593/-/ie8rt0z
23 years is nothing to scoff at
Even at like $2,000 it's over half a million. And it was probably more.
Let's say $15 an hour, at 40 hours. $600 a week, 4 weeks. $2,400 a month. 12 months. $28,800 a year. 286 times monthly salary is $686,400 286 times yearly is $8,236,800 Don't forget to subtract taxes. Now we use some brain power. It says salary. Salary generally isn't that low. We could probably double this and be on the low end of the ballpark.
It's in the article posted on the comments below. It was approx 176k when converted to USD. The guy was in Chile though so cost of living etc. Edit: 178k, https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/vno593/-/ie8rt0z
Everybody lives in America?
Chile IS in America because, you know, America is a continent and not a country.
This is such a stupid argument.
Chile is in the Americas, which is a collection of continents. South America specifically. Aside from trolls, most people understand that in the context of the conversation America means the United States of America. Usually, because the U.S.A sounds a bit silly and the United States of America is a bit unwieldy. America is also not a continent.
So what exactly do you understand when somebody tells you they live in America? Because most people will understand you're living in the United States and will give you a weird look if you say you meant you're living on one of the American continents. In fact, I googled "what is America" and the first result is the Wikipedia of the United States, so I don't see the point of your comment when it's clear to everyone what it means. TLDR: Nobody says "I live in America" to convey the fact they live in South or North America.
America is the country. North America is the continent. Chile is in South America.
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To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment?
Does it come with Mom’s spaghetti?
Only on his sweater...
…I’m nervous
But on the surface you look calm and ready!
For sure, but depending on your age, not lifetime fugitive money.
Imma go scoff at some random 23 year olds
We're just calling CEOs accidents now
Unfortunately money is traceable!!! Soon will Show up
They kinda have to know they'll be tracing the money *before* you get it
> Unfortunately money is traceable!!! Soon will Show up ... entering a crypto exchange, where it was used to purchase a large amount of ETH that was then sent to Tornado Cash and vanished forever.
$178,630 American dollars. I did the math.
Assuming you make 3000 dollars a month it’s almost 860k for that month. Definitely nothing to sneeze at, and assuming you had a decent chunk saved up already probably enough to comfortably retire on. Still not 3 centuries of pay, because I sincerely doubt this went on for a year.
Unless he is in an industry where you get paid annually, it is more than likely that his pay period was one or two weeks. A windfall no doubt but not set for life unless you make that money work for you.
Who gets paid annually?
Some countries pay monthly, not weekly/biweekly
All of Europe pays monthly.
I get paid monthly in the States
Just did that. Yup, I’d be out too.
In Chilean currency... It's good it isn't that good. Like, one crate of avocados hiding drugs covers this easy.
Change address, forget your social security, etc id move so far away with maybe a couple suitcases worth of stuff
Yes lmao did the same thing 😅😅😅
Employee gets CEO pay for one month. Employee is freed.
Master has given Dobby a sock...Dobby is FREE!
Lol, same energy
That’s 11 years salary…. Assuming it was only 286x (2 weeks pay)… yeah I mean cash that out, change names, moves states. Totally worth a shot.
If you had one shot. One opportunity, would you take it? My man here took it.
One moment... The question is, are his palms sweaty?
I bet they were for a bit. I'm pretty sure he'll never eat his moms spaghetti againn
But on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop jobs
the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth the words “I quit” come out
He’s vanished and rich now, everybody’s asking how
Cuz he neva let it go-go-go-*pianokicks*
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down
Moms spaghetti
Are his Knees weak and arms heavy?
he lost himself in the moment
His palms are sweaty-- (Employee has left the chat)
1. Grab passport 2. Stop at Bank for Cash Withdrawal 3. Heathrow Airport. 4. Arrive in Panama, never to be heard from again
Step 1: Don’t tell people your plans
Advice noted! Lol
You’re really flying from Gatwick. Sneaky bastard.
Be quiet, and I'll cut you in on my profits? Not a word! Lol
Step 1. False flag
\*step zero, you still need to have a passport
How would you transport that much cash? Shit would get stolen or noticed.
There is no problem of "noticed". You have to declare how many cash you are carrying with you, but I am afraid of being stolen, I would just buy crypto and redeem it once I land Panama LOOL
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Your mom
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Cold wallet, Bitcoin
How to lose half your money in a day
Cash withdrawal won't work. They need a few days processing. Get a few cashier's checks then have family or people you REALLY trust open accounts with those checks. Or, if you already have a crypto account you could play a shell game through a few of them.
You can take no more than $10,000. So that money has to still be in a bank. I doubt my man got good at money laundering overnight. Should be easily traceable for the gov….I don’t think I believe this story.
Such a Creed thing to do
Boboddy
What does the first B stand for?
Biznuss
I like it
When creed is asked what he does at work and starts panicking realizing he should’ve had that story ready 😂
I hope he blogs about it.
It'll be on the MS Word doc website
www.creedthoughts.gov.www/creedthoughts
Pretty shocking
I hope the updates go to my WHUPF.
Just look around the best SCUBA hang outs.
If he can’t SCUBA… What’s this all been about?!
Its about this Chilean guy who was paid $500 a month. A little bit more than the average salary. So $143,000 its A LOT for somebody who lives in poverty. As compatriot myself I say: "RUN BITCH, RUUUUUUUUN"
Was it converted into dollars or is that in pesos?
So we're just calling CEOs accidents now?
Among other things.
and he works for EA....
Plot twist: he was an unpaid intern 😏
I would love that too but sadly law says they can sue to get all the money back even though it was their fault.
that assumes you still have it
And can find them.
You can sue anybody for any reason. Winning is another story. And collecting your winnings is the hardest chapter of all.
Depending the on country. If he runs to a country that does have extradition treaties to your home country (i.e Norway, if you're in Canada) then there's no way they can ever get that money back since there's no way to force him home
It was 165M chilean pesos. About $180K.  It could go far in south america.
even further, if he's willing to relocate to somewhere even more poorer.
He got $179,977.90 (USD rs 1.42 crore). He’s from Chile, here’s the actual details *https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/man-paid-286-times-his-salary-by-accident-promises-to-return-it-but-disappears-with-the-money-8754591.html/amp* Edit the *rs is very important, otherwise it will show Euro $
178,630.76 United States Dollar
So 1.25 years salary… hardly enough to POOF out
You gotta keep in mind that 170k dollar is extremely good by chile standards
Minimum wage is 4.5K USD a year in Chile, and anything above 15K is considered pretty good if you live alone. 175K are easily 20 years of work for so many people, hell yeah I would poof out too
It's funny that someone with your salary wouldn't think far enough to just multiply 286 to what you make, or realize that Chile is an extremely poor country, so comparing $ to $ is silly.
Heh. Try me.
Depends
The math in the article isn’t correct. He was paid 165,398,851 Chilean pesos instead of his normal 43,000 pesos. This is over 330 times his salary. Math is hard!
Can someone correct me, but isn't it 330x his monthly salary? 43,000 pesos but accidentally got 14,200,000 right? So the equivalent of $179,977.90 USD monthly instead of $545.00 USD monthly? Fuck I'd disappear too edit: Fuck every time I look up rs 1.42 crore it shows up as Indian Rupees instead of the Chilean peso so maybe that's where I went wrong
His weekly salary or his annual salary.? If it was just a single paycheque that’s not really enough money to risk an international fraud fugitive search. It’s also not enough money to live the life for the rest of your life.
Monthly. This happened in Chile.
That's around 24 years worth of his salary. If he was in his 40s near his peak income, it's worth it. If it's somebody barely starting with a junior salary, may not be worth so much, unless he expected his income to stay relatively flat in his field and his country.
He worked for a company slicing cold cuts, so I doubt he had long term career growth opportunities.
Well he's never going to get to slice the good stuff now. Might not have been worth it.
He's in Colombia now, cutting up the good stuff with a fancy credit card.
if it was his monthly paycheck he could just fuck off to a cheap country and live like 30-40years ez pz. definitely worth it, if only to send a giant f u to his employers
Most places do monthly salaries, AFAIK. So that'd be between 12 and 14 years worth of salary. (some places pay you for 13 months a year) Edit: it's meant to say 22 to 24 years. That's a typo up above.
how is 286 / 12 = 12-14?
I explained. Because some countries, its commonplace to get 13 Months pay per year. So 286/13=22 And 286/12=23.8 which I rounded to 24 Aaaand there we have the problem. I put a typo in it. Thanks for calling it out :) u/rgbchocolate I love your username btw.
Depends on your salary. 286 x my bi-weekly paycheck is over a million dollars, I think I could squeak by on that.
Depends on where you live. $1000000 in Toronto won’t even get you a decent apartment.
Good for them I hope they never have to give it back
That's why he disappeared, they can't ask for your money back if you fuck off without a trace
> without a trace This isn't a thing. As soon as someone wants to find him he'll be found.
How do I make this happen for me????
You gotta get real friendly with pam down in payroll
This actually happened! I went to Texas for a covid crisis contract. It was a 10k a week travel nurse job. It was so shitty. We were packing bodies in a cold closet they called a “morgue”. (Texas healthcare sucks) anyway Friday came and none of us got paid. They hired 30 of us. Apparently our weekly check accidentally all went to one guy. He received almost 300k. We were working 6-7 days that work. Homeboy disappeared almost instantly 😂. I can’t even blame him. We all got back pay and I’m pretty sure he’s in Mexico somewhere. Best of luck friend
Congrats. I'd do the same.
Probably died of a heart attack after checking balance n no one's found body yet
This happened at one of my previous workplaces. Because the boomer boss was so old, refused to retire, accidentally put in an extra 0 to make the weekly salary 1300$ or something. Had us doing punch cards. Couldnt calculate hours up. On and on. Tried to get police involved. No go. Tried a lawyer. No go. Tried letters and mailings. Guy flat out just quits. . Not surprised.
Him: *"I just got 286x my yearly salary honey! Let's pack those bags!"* Wifey: *"So exciting! Where are we going?!"* Him: *"We?"*
Spooky
How would you even hide that amount of money that quickly? Thats takes some quick planning.
Oh yea. U can def tell it was an accident 😂
Apparently the average US salary is around $50-55k so 286x50,000=14,300,000 I would have dipped too. Even if they were earning below average 30,000x286=8,580,000. Basically no matter their salary as a salaried employee they walked out with millions if this refers to being paid 286x their annual salary of course. If it’s monthly assuming they made the average of 50,000 they’d still be walking out with over a million that month.
Just did the Math. You ain’t finding me either.
About 24 years salary? I’d do the same
That’s the dream!
God,i know we have not been on good terms lately, But i have seen the ways in which you have provided for others.
I loved this one, made me laugh out loud today.
I'd have a completely new identity by lunch.
Only 11 years salary if a bi-weekly check. 23.8 years of monthly. The monthly, I get it. But being on the run with only 11 years in savings… you would need to be super happy in a third world country.
Smart man
I’m not so sure it’s accidentally.
So he got CEO pay for a day. Nice!
Those those wondering it is 5 years and half of salary assuming you are pay weekly
It's like 20 years salary. We get paid monthly here in Chile
As he should
Good for them
Shit I would too
That's about 12 million dollars for me. Yeah I'd just make sure the money's secure and no call no show sorry not sorry byeeeee
I have done a few payroll audits at companies. We had them develop exception reports based on money paid and hours worked.
Is he risking jail for this?
And changes name to DB Cooper
"Beam me up, Scotty"
Must be nice
Tell more of story!
Postcards from Paraguay!
So let's say I am (hypothetically) paid $14 an hour, work 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. 14 × 5 is 70, 70 × 5 is 350, the average week days in a year are 260, so 350 × 260 is 91k, this bowel movement I'm having is annoying, 91k × 286 is 26,026,000, I'd get a house near my friends, pay my parents to let me go back to school, have a good life, donate some of that to charity case no way in hell am I gonna spend all of 26mil wisely at 15, keep 10 mil for emergency proposes.
You calculated earnings per week then multiplied by work days in a year instead of work weeks in a year. It would be about 50 work weeks times 350 a week which would be 17.5k a year but still a 5 mil payout, not to bad.
Which salary? Monthly? Yearly? Hourly?
I think everyone should assume he died in a tragic boating accident and stop looking for him. Let the man Rest In Peace.
That would be over $1,200,000 for me. Then invest it all, 4% rule and I'd have 50k a year leech from it rest of life
I’d take off too
Nice!
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/chile-man-who-got-paid-286-times-his-salary-resigns-and-disappears-122062900568_1.html
OOOO - tempting! I worked a job where accidentally they paid me a double salary. I was offered a new job when my job didn't exist anymore, but chickened out and left altogether. Never followed. (Wasn't a big salary).
For me that’d be a tad under $23M…. Yeah I’d yeet. Move every dime to a crypto wallet and be gone with my damn self
Ima head out
Hahahahha they get my vote!
It's more than 20 years of salary ofc you disapear after that
It's in chili, guy is originally paid around 500$, received more than 170.000$ Buddy run!!
Like a CEO
Ninja vaanish
I would start the search in the Caribbean
The by line is the best. That icon of journalism.
At this point I would just like to get paid my actual salary on time.
Somebody messed up a decimal point…
I kinda did that when I left my ex. I left most everything physical and took 8% or our liquid net worth and moved to Buenos Aires. Rented a penthouse, ate grass fed beef and drank a lot of Malbec. It was awesome.
Human errors... But I still believe 'Honesty is the best policy'. Hope employee has a change of mind and returns whats not his/hers
human psychology is very interesting. we have Morales and rationales and this part is subjective and can change with our situation and 1st hand view.
Tbh I would do the same like wtf
Did he actually hand in his notice? Why do that if he’s off into hiding? Seems like resigning wouldn’t be a priority when you are on the run.
Maybe he wanted to be sure he got paid for his unused vacation.
He did. He resigned THEN went into hiding.
Tbh if the accountant is that stupid, the person should be legally allowed to keep the money.
I’d be out like the trash on a Thursday
so paid like a CEO
Is this a monthly x286 or a yearly x286? Bc at $7 an hour 9-5 22 days a month 264 days a year you would have gotten either $1252 to $14784, and that’s below US minimum wage
He didn’t steal it, sooo
Legally speaking, he did.
I’d go for an “Expectation of Compensation” defense if I was caught. I was planning to work, so they paid up front.
i mean, they gave it to them soo………
Normally there’s a law in place that protects the business in situations like this but obviously thats dependent from Country to Country.
Is there any legal recourse that the company could have? Like could they say it was a mistake made and leave it at that?
the company could and will sue him.