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Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean pretty much. This is some real drop in the bucket low level stuff so the over reaction here is surprising. Just for that Im gonna go steal some pens tomorrow too.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

You caused additional costs to the company by making them do extra work. Do not underestimate how obnoxious accounting can be.

That's not a defense of corporations, it's an explanation of why they will get mad, and why it often is a firing offense if you do it for a large sum (because then it might even impact taxes as it can be viewed as compensation, or as a loan)