14 DAY TRIAL // An employee with Goodwill has decided not to keep $10,500 (€7,850) found among donated books.
The staffer in Stockton, California was sorting through the books when she came across the large pile of bills. The cash was found in an envelope, in $100 (€75) bills.
"There was an envelope full of cash," Lakeisha Williams recalls.
She thought about keeping the money, but she worried about someone needing it and looking for it.
"My concern was somebody was out that money, and I would have liked for them to get it back," she tells News 10.
She admits that she would like a reward from her management. However, one month after the money was found, it has still not been claimed.
"It would have been nice for them to say 'Hey, you get some kickback, thanks for being honest and turning it in'," she notes.
If nobody comes forward, 10 percent of the sum goes back to Lakeisha. She and her husband have started a fitness business and they could use the cash infusion.
The Goodwill location President, David Miller, says that this sort of thing happens all the time.
"What we did is we take the money … and put it into a holding account, and we wait usually a pretty good amount of time to see if somebody comes forward and identifies themselves and says they made a donation and a mistake," he details.
The rest of the money after the employee finder's fee is attributed goes to Goodwill.
"If nothing happens at that point … and all indicators are that nobody is claiming the money, at that point in time we put it into our normal donation stream revenue for our agency. [...] We have a policy to reward our employees for their honesty and integrity," Miller adds.