Made a honest error by charging 69 cents/gallon gas, got fired but at least he's

[theking]

...trying to complete the 12 steps so he can move forward  :

The guy who accidentally charged 69 cents for gas is trying to repay $20,000 to the station that fired him

The manager of a Shell gas stop in California was fired this week after he accidentally trimmed more than $6 from his station’s premium fuel prices for three hours.

Prices for premium gas at a Shell stop in Rancho Cordova, Calif., last Thursday were as low as 69 cents a gallon, after manager John Szczecina mistakenly adjusted the price from its original rate of $6.99. The last time gas sold for that little was in 1978.

Szczecina’s story quickly went viral, as word spread and drivers flocked to take advantage of the cheap gas prices. But once the error came to light, Szczecina was placed on administrative leave, and ultimately lost his job this week, as the blunder cost the owner of the gas station $20,000, a debt the now unemployed Szczecina fully intends to pay off.

“Even though it cost me my job, it’s fine. Because the truth is, you know, it’s my fault,” Szczecina said in an interview with the Washington Post. “I know nobody wants to say that anymore, but I felt it was important to own up to my mistake and do everything I can to make it right.”

To cover the bill, Szczecina’s sister Paula Jackson set up a GoFundMe page online where people could pitch in. The page had already raised nearly $15,000 as of Thursday afternoon.

When contacted through the GoFundMe, neither Szczecina nor Jackson immediately responded to Fortune’s request for comment.

Over 600 people have contributed to the campaign, with one anonymous donor putting in $1,000.

“We are halfway there,”​​ Jackson wrote on the page Wednesday. “We are looking forward to giving the check to the owners of the Shell gas station. John is doing this because it is the right thing to do.”

A representative from Shell’s U.S. division told Fortune that the station is independently owned, and the company is not responsible for pricing, hiring, and termination decisions.

In his interview with the Washington Post, Szczecina said that while he considered the blunder an “honest mistake,” he was more than prepared to accept the decision to fire him, although Californian drivers who benefited from his error are probably seeing him in a much better light than his former employer.

[VillainousHero]

I'm gonna start to charge every customer for 25 cents a taco rate...See how soon they would fire me over that. 

Then start a go fund me for unemployment.. .