A group of employees at a medical center in Kentucky received a nice Christmas present from their employer this year as one of the scratch-off tickets they received won a $50,000 bonus.
“We were all so excited. I was on the floor,” Sheila Colter, shift supervisor at Bowling Green Medical Center in Kentucky, reported Sunday, according to CNN.
For the company Christmas party, which took place at the beginning of the month, the woman was responsible for ordering gifts online for all 21 employees.
However, seeing that they didn't arrive on time, the shift manager grabbed a few $30 scratch cards at the last minute that she hoped would help divide them into a group.
Then they could win $50 with one of the lucky tickets.
“We decided to continue playing as a group. I stopped on the way to work and we kept winning,” the woman continued to American media.
Thanks to their winning ticket, the group of employees would have bought a ticket for the scratch game “Millionaires Club,” in which this time they could win $100. But their luck didn't stop there: with the money, they decided as a group to buy two new tickets, one of which turned out to be a winner worth $50,000.
After taxes, the 21 colleagues had to part with a Christmas bonus of around $36,000, which would have meant that each of them would have taken home $1,750, the Kentucky Lottery reported, according to CNN.
“It will help a lot. And I will never forget that,” said Winnie Beckman, one of the lucky ones, who said she wanted to use the amount to cover the medical costs of her mother, who was recently diagnosed with cancer.