You always hear about people who win the lottery and then stay at their jobs — so they can keep on being nice, normal people who don’t rock the boat. So this is kind of refreshing.
A 50-year-old woman in southwest Michigan named Julie Leach came forward yesterday, after hitting the Powerball lottery for over $310 million.
She’s worked at a fiberglass factory for almost 23 years, and says she was having a worse day than usual last week. She was on her lunch break when she checked the lottery numbers.
Then, after she had her co-workers double check them, she walked up to her boss; told him she didn’t need a raise anymore; and quit immediately. Right there on the spot. Which is what everyone always dreams of doing, but never does.
When a reporter asked about it, she called it a “nasty, dirty job”, and said she never even considered keeping it.
She’s taking the lump sum, so after taxes she’ll get about 140 million bucks.