Google accidentally pays an employee a quarter of a million euros. However, the employee is desperately trying to return the money. A wild journey begins, which ends positively for the employee.
Who is it about? Sam Curry is an employee of the Google corporation. Here, he deals with finding and fixing security vulnerabilities. However, a few weeks ago, Google surprisingly transferred about 250,000 euros without explanation. Colleagues from Genbeta.com report this.
While others might have quietly swept this fact under the rug and spent the money, the engineer chose honesty and wanted to return the 250,000 euros to Google. However, Google completely ignored its own employee.
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Employee finds a way to contact Google via Twitter
How did the situation develop? Sam Curry tries to contact Google through various channels to get an explanation for this unexpected income. However, when he received no response, he decided to take it a step further and posted a screenshot of the income on his Twitter account, tagging Google. Most companies respond quite quickly on Twitter/X, usually faster than through official support channels.
What happened to the money? Thanks to the viral nature of this news on his X account, he finally managed to get Google to listen to him and open a communication channel. From that moment on, he confirmed through his social network that he had managed to receive a refund of money that ultimately did not belong to him.
To this day, it is unclear why Google made a payment of 250,000 euros to the employee’s account. Since Google has not commented on the error, we can only speculate why the money ended up in the account. In the end, it was perhaps just a typo made by another employee.
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