A LOTTERY winner has revealed how their joy was short-lived due to a crucial error. The colleague who took part in a work syndicate won the jackpot and hoped to have been able to take a break from work. After splitting the winnings between them, the winner received £30,000 but due to a major mishap, the work colleagues couldn’t do much with their money .
According to the Lottoland website 70 per cent of the UK's over 18s take part in the national lottery on a regular basis, which is close to 45 million people. Taking the online forum Mumsnet , an employee who worked at the same company as the winner, spoke of the “unfortunate” event. The social media user, who is anonymous , wrote: “My work syndicate won the jackpot about 25 years ago, long before I worked there.
READ MORE ON LOTTERY “Unfortunately for them there were three winners that week and they had so many members in the syndicate they only got £30K each. “Apart from most of them driving around in a new car, normal life quickly resumed.” The post was part of a thread of other people revealing their lottery winnings.
One Mumsnet user couldn’t believe how people chose to spend their winnings. Most read in Fabulous “I really cannot fathom why or how so many winners burn through their winnings. “I would see a financial advisor if it ever happened to me.
If it were a sizable pot I mean,” said one shocked parent. But someone else replied back to this and added: “If it was only a million I could proba.