A Shell gas station in Rancho Cordova lost $16,000 after the worker’s mistake, which he has admitted and taken responsibility for.
A worker at a Northern California gas station was fired Monday after he accidentally charged 69 cents a gallon for premium fuel. A Shell gas station in Rancho Cordova lost $16,000, according to KGO-TV, after John Szczecina, who worked as a manager for a Shell gas station in the city, mistakenly put a decimal point in the wrong place, and ended up charging 69 cents a gallon of premium, instead of $6.99 a gallon.
“I put all three prices on there, except the diesel. The last one kind of didn’t go. So, I just took responsibility for it and said yeah, it’s my fault, and I’m to blame”, Szczecina Fresno station KFSN. Hundreds of drivers took advantage of the drastically reduced fuel prices after word quickly spread on social media.
