<p>MARIETTA, Ga. — A global company has stepped in to solve quite a “coinundrum” for a Georgia man.</p>
<p>Andreas Flaten’s former employer <a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-man-final-paycheck-915-coins-0fe966a8ea0fbd1a9559d1222081aa5f">dumped at least 90,000 pennies</a> on his driveway last month as a form of final payment for his work at an auto shop, he said.</p>
<p>When Bellevue, Washington-based Coinstar heard about his predicament, they decided that change was needed.</p>
<p>They picked up Flaten’s coins on Thursday and rounded up the amount to give him a $1,000 check.</p>
<p>They also made donations to two charities of Flaten’s choosing: two animal shelters. </p>
<p>“Coinstar has been in the coin business for 30 years and we process approximately 41 billion coins annually – so picking up 91,000 pennies was all in a day’s work,” Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity said in a statement.</p>
<p>Flaten said his former employer — A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City — owed him $915 after he left his job there in November.</p>
<p>He finally got his pay earlier this month in the form of thousands of oil- or grease-covered pennies dumped at the end of his driveway in Fayetteville, Georgia. Atop the pile: an envelope with Flaten’s final paystub and a goodbye note that featured an obscenity.</p>
<p>Flaten had been spending an hour or two every night trying to clean the pennies, which he stored in a wheelbarrow in his garage.</p>
<p>The owner of the shop, Miles Walker, told WGCL-TV that he didn’t know if he did or didn’t drop the pennies off at Flaten’s house.</p>
<p>“I don’t really remember,” Walker said. “It doesn’t matter. He got paid, that’s all that matters.”</p>
