Google accidentally pays an employee a quarter of a million euros. But the employee tries almost desperately to pay the money back. A journey of discovery begins that ends positively for the employee.
Who is it about? Sam Curry is an employee of Google. Here, he is responsible for finding security gaps and then plugging them. But a few weeks ago, Google unexpectedly transferred the equivalent of around 250,000 euros without explanation or explanation. Our colleagues at Genbeta.com report this.
While others would probably have secretly swept the fact under the carpet and spent the money, the engineer was honest and wanted to pay Google back the 250,000 euros. But Google completely ignored its own employee.
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How did things continue? Sam Curry tries to contact Google through various channels to get an explanation for this unexpected revenue. However, when he received no response, he decides to go one step further and posts a screenshot of the revenue on his Twitter account and also tags Google. Because most companies respond pretty quickly on Twitter/X and usually faster than through official support channels.
What happened to the money? Finally, thanks to the viral nature of this message on his X account, he manages to get Google to listen to him and open a communication channel. From that moment on, he confirms through his social network that he had managed to obtain 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 into the employee’s account. Since Google has not commented on the error, we can only speculate as to why the money ended up in the account. In the end, it may have just been a number mix-up by another employee.
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