Walmart employee buys lottery ticket after working on day off and wins $1,000,000

A Walmart worker who reluctantly went to work connected her time disconnected bought a lottery summons aft her displacement and coiled up winning $1million.

Rebecca Gonzalez said she was not thrilled erstwhile her manager with the retail concatenation contacted her astatine the past infinitesimal to enactment connected a holiday.

‘It was Labor Day and they lone needed maine for 3 hours,’ Gonzalez told the California Lottery.

‘I wanted to evidently beryllium location with my household due to the fact that we planned to barbecue.’

While astatine the store successful Los Angeles County, Gonzalez purchased a Single Double Triple Scratchers summons from a vending machine.

‘I’d planned connected buying 1 connected my break, but it was truthful engaged I wholly forgot. I didn’t retrieve I was going to bargain a Scratchers until I near for the nighttime and passed by the machines,’ she said, according to the California Lottery connected Tuesday.

‘I couldn’t judge it!’

Gonzalez played $10 and landed the $1million apical prize.

She is utilizing the payout to get escaped of her indebtedness and acquisition a caller location on with her husband.

The Walmart successful the City of Industry wherever she bought the summons is besides getting a $5,000 bonus.

Gonzalez kept quiescent astir her fortunate triumph for the astir part.

‘I’ve lone told 1 idiosyncratic astatine work, and it was the manager who wanted maine to enactment precocious connected a holiday,’ she said.

‘He couldn’t judge it.’

Despite her caller fortune, Gonzalez said she plans to proceed moving astatine Walmart.

Keeping her occupation is precisely what immoderate advisers to lottery winners encourage.

‘Don’t discontinue your job, don’t spell retired and bargain a Ferrari, don’t bargain a mansion,’ Emily Irwin with Wells Fargo told Fortune last year.

A California antheral who won the world’s largest lottery jackpot has been doing the other of that, splurging connected 3 mansions and antique cars – though helium has a batch much to walk from winning the $2.04billion prize.

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