His family worries he could also be sued by his former employer
Drivers in Rancho Cordova, CA thought they saw a mirage last week.
A Shell station listed the price of gas at 69 cents a gallon. As you can imagine, people flocked to the pump for the miraculous discount after months of skyrocketing prices. After three hours, the station lost an estimated $16,000, Sacramento TV station KOVR reported.
And on Monday, John Szczecina lost his job.
“Well, it was a mistake that I did,” Szczecina, former manager at the station, told KOVR. He accidentally put a decimal in the wrong spot and began selling the $6.99 gallon of premium for just 69 cents.
His sister Paula Jackson has launched a GoFundMe with the goal of raising $16,000 the gas station lost in revenue and paying it back. It’s been four days since the campaign began, and only $650 has been raised as of Tuesday afternoon.
Jackson is also worried her brother could be sued, but business attorney Craig Zimmerman, based out of Torrance, CA, told KOVR that employees are protected from liability in cases where they make mistakes performing normal job duties. “The only way he would be responsible, absent a written agreement, is if he was acting outside the scope of his employment,” Zimmerman said. “For instance, if his boss said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t ever set the price on that gas pump.’ And then he did.”
However, a California doctor and nurse were recently sued for acting outside the scope of their licenses.
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