A California man fired for charging just $0.69 a gallon for gas says his former employer will not accept the more than $20,000 raised to make up for the money lost due to his mistake.

John Szczecina, who worked at a gas station on Sunrise Boulevard in Rancho Cordova, said helost his jobon June 13 after he accidentally put the decimal point in the wrong spot, according to CBS affiliateKOVR. The price of the Premium Shell gasoline, he said, was supposed to be $6.99.

A short time later, Szczecina’s sister Paula Jackson started a GoFundMe in which she claimed her brother was “being held responsible for the glitch that the station was unable to stop for 3 hours” and speculated he “may be sued” as a result.

Attempts to reach the gas station for comment were unsuccessful.

“To be clear, at no time has the Company told you that it intends to seek payment from you to reimburse the Company’s losses,” the company said, according to the letter Szczecina said he received. “Nor does the Company intend to take any legal action against you in connection with the incorrect fuel pricing incident.”

Additionally, the company reportedly claimed that those who donated to pay the supposed debt were “misled.”

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The company reportedly requested in its letter that the GoFundMe “be shut down,” and asked that those who donated be refunded. Alternatively, the company suggested donating the money to charity.

For its part, Shell says in a statement to PEOPLE that while it provides fuel for the Sunrise Boulevard station, the day-to-day site operations “are the responsibility of the wholesaler, site owner and/or operator who make their own operating decisions.”

“I think he should keep it,” he explained. “I think he should spend it on living his life until he gets a job, because it cost him his job.”

“Thank you all for your generous donations to help my brother John cover the $20,000 owed to the gas station,” she wrote in the update.

“It just makes me feel like there’s good in this world still,” he said. “It’s worth fighting for.”

source: people.com