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South Carolina Goodwill Employee Lauded for Returning $1,400 Found in Bag

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Getty 032015 Goodwill?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1426895292687John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/MCT via Getty Images(CHARLESTON, S.C.) — An employee at a South Carolina Goodwill store was just a few days into her new job when she made an unlikely discovery: $1,400 cash inside a donated bag.

“I was pretty excited,” the employee, Kayla Holland, told ABC News. “I was like, what should I do? Should I go shopping with it?”

Instead, Holland, 24, who works at Goodwill through the organization’s employment policy that seeks to hire people with disabilities, turned the money in and is being praised for her honesty.

“I just walked it over to my manager that was on duty that day,” Holland said. “She was like, ‘Wow.’ She was impressed.”

Louisa Barnes, a manager at the North Charleston Goodwill, says Goodwill employees are instructed during their orientation to turn in found items but many employees do not comply.

“I’m extremely proud of her,” Barnes, who was not working the day Holland found the money, told ABC News. “Not all employees do that, and we know that, so when one employee does it amazes us and we’re extremely proud.”

Holland found the $1,400 March 12 but Goodwill is hoping the attention placed on the story now will help connect the money to its rightful owner.

No one has come forward to claim the cash so it is being held by Goodwill. After what a Goodwill spokesman described as a “reasonable amount of time,” if the money remains unclaimed, Goodwill will process the cash as a donation.

“To have employees that are conscientious about what they do and honest about what they do, it’s a great thing to have employees like that working somewhere,” Sandra Herrman, a Goodwill customer, told ABC station WCIV in Charleston.



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