- A California gas station manager lost his job after mistakenly pricing gas at 69 cents a gallon.
- John Szczecina’s sister set up a GoFundMe that raised more than $20,000 to pay back station owners.
- “Even if it cost me my job, it’s okay. Because the truth is, you know, it’s my fault,” Szczecina said.
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Former Shell petrol station manager John Szczecina is trying to pay back his former employer after wrongly pricing premium petrol as low as 69 cents a gallon.
Shell gas station in Szczecina in Rancho Cordova, California, flooded with customers when he mistakenly moved a decimal place to 69 cents on $6.99 a gallon of premium gasoline, according to CBS Sacrament
Before the bug was fixed hours later, customers had flocked to the gas station to take advantage of the unintended deal amid rising gas prices. The error is believed to have cost the gas station $20,000 in sales, according to Fortune.
“I immediately thought we had been robbed and I was afraid something terrible had happened to the cashiers,” Szczecina, who later lost his job, told the Washington Post. “Even if it cost me my job, it’s okay. Because the truth is, you know, it’s my fault.”
With the help of friends and family, the former manager is now trying to pay back the allegedly independent Shell petrol station. One person who said they were Szczecina’s sister, Paula Jackson, set up a GoFundMe, which raised more than enough money to cover the damage. Szczecina and his sister make arrangements to return the money to Shell.
“He doesn’t have to pay it back,” Jackson told the Washington Post. “But just the fact that he does it and wants to do it shows a lot of character and honesty and responsibility and I’m really proud of him for that.”
At the time of publication, GoFundMe had surpassed its goal and raised at least TK,000 US dollars.
“We would like to thank you all for your encouraging words and financial support! We have achieved our goal and are now in the process of arranging the return of the money,” the bellhop said on Friday. “We appreciate all of you kind and generous people!”