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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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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're probably running unlimited Amex. Google should legally have to write off the ad spend and cease the account.

100k offense from negligence. I've not worked anywhere that would shrug that off. Of course, he could be family or otherwise protected.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

100k offense from negligence. I’ve not worked anywhere that would shrug that off. Of course, he could be family or otherwise protected.

I've seen negligence cause costs approaching 100k at my current job (and thankfully leadership has changed so that isn't happening anywhere near as much) but the way I see it, if he's a really good employee and Google writes off the charges he could possibly narrowly keep his job. But I don't see him keeping his job if Google doesn't write off the ad fees. (Barring of course being owner/family to owners)