A Moral Dilemma,

was faced by a Chilean employee,

of Chile’s largest producer of cold cuts, Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos (Cial), pictured above, photograph Cial headquarters, and the dilemma? the employee was accidentally paid 286 times his salary last month, in figures they paid an employee 165,398,851 Chilean pesos ($180,000) last month, instead of the 500,000 pesos ($542) he was entitled to, according to Chilean newspaper Diario Financiero, on May 30th, an office assistant at Cial approached a deputy manager to report an error in his monthly payment. After checking their account, the person noticed that he had been paid millions of pesos in excess, and wanted to clarify the issue, the worker allegedly agreed to go to their bank early the next day and refund their employer, only they ended up doing something very different, after Cial’s financial department noticed that the bank had not notified them about the refunded payment, they tried contacting the worker again, only their messages were left unanswered. A while later, the worker got in touch, claiming that he had overslept and would visit the bank shortly. Only they never did that, and on June 2nd, they simply handed in their resignation through a law firm, the worker has now reportedly disappeared, leaving the company no choice but to take legal action about what it considers a crime of misappropriation and hope that it can recover at least some of the $180,000 paid accidentally, dare I ask, what would you do?