A Gofundme Donation Helps Andreas Flaten

Andreas Flaten was a mechanic at A Okay Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City, Georgia, when the owner tried to withhold his final paycheck and left him without a paycheck for over three months. He contacted the Georgia Department of Labor to receive the cash in the form of 90,000. Oil-coated pennies that were left in his driveway. His final paystub was included in the collection.

Flaten was then paid oil-soaked pennies after he resigned. The federal government agreed with Flaten after he filed a formal complaint to the state labor regulators. In January 2021, Miles Walker refused to give Andreas Flaten his last check. Flaten was sued in January 2021. After a hearing, the federal government sided with Flaten. The Walker family refused to return Andreas Flaten’s last check.

On his last day at work, Andreas Flaten was given a mound of ninety-five thousand pennies covered in motor oil. These were exchanged for a thousand dollars. However, his girlfriend Olivia Oxley believes he never received a final check. The tenth-year-old has been battling late payment ever since. He has had to endure several setbacks, even though he has been able to raise funds on Gofundme.

Flaten was offered assistance by Coinstar, a coin-counting kiosk company. Coinstar will clean and process the coins. The company will donate $1,000 to Atlanta’s two animal shelters if they match the dollar value of the pennies. This is a remarkable gesture that demonstrates how the community is supporting Andreas Flaten’s efforts to help a fellow Atlantan.

Flaten collected the pennies as he was constantly cleaning up a pile full of dirty pennies each night. Flaten cleaned hundreds of pennies each night before he found the money. In mid-March, the shop’s owner, Miles Walker, couldn’t remember if he had dropped off the pennies at his home, but he called him a “weenie.”