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The dad was a dummy. First, your little kid shouldn’t have a YouTube channel. Second, you don’t use a company card to buy Robux. That’s a moronic thing to do. Might have gone unnoticed but then he got careless with it and it came back to bite him. Bad parenting all around. Don’t blame the kid, blame the dad. Hopefully he learns a hard lesson and can find new work.
MFW
Honestly, if you can't understand how absolutely debilitating this is over a tiny misstep, I hardly know what to say. People commit manslaughter and get off easier that this. It's in no way reasonable to say that "Oh, you shouldn't have used the company card to pay 20$ for your kid - you deserve life-ruining debt".
Allowing a child to associate their happiness with view counts is a terrible idea. Already too many sociopaths in "content creation" as it is.
Multiple colossal missteps.
Correct. He should have spent $0 on a company credit card for his kid. He could have spent $20 from his own personal card, which presumably would have more reasonable limits. He should have ensured the card required a pin to use so that unauthorized charges couldn't accrue.
I feel bad for him, too, but he's incredibly stupid and I don't see why anyone else should have to cover his ass for his own fuckup.
As far as I can tell none of my cards have any single limits. When I remodeled my house I charged 45k to one to buy materials and pay contractors.
You have a credit limit so you can't have a balance above it. You can easily spend 45K of you keep paying off, though
Of course there is an overall limit. I was just pointing out that charging a large amount single purchase doesn't put anything in your way unless your purchase will exceed that upper limit
Honestly, it shouldn't be legal to pull more than like 100 USD off a card without re-verifying the card holder. Fuck these companies that take you're card once and have no fucking limit on how much they'll pull from it without verifying it's you.
Sure, you should have a limit on your card. That doesn't make it okay for others to exploit you when you make an obvious mistake. Let's not pretend these companies aren't aware how much money they're making off people's kids spending more money than they're allowed to.
Yeah the guy fucked up. Id also say the company fucked up if they didn't have the cards auto sending receipts from purchases somewhere as well. (Then again it could have been an option the father didn't have on once again). Anytime I've had a company card for something I would turn on all the notifications and input everything into the ADP app or whatever system they are using right away. I wouldn't even walk out of the store without taking a picture of the receipt to upload it to make sure if I lost thr receipt I wasnt going to be screwed. You're spending money that isn't yours, that shit will bite you.
I bought jewelry with a company card so my SO wouldn't see it on the statement. Paid that off immediately, no cost to the company. My boss was fucking LIVID and chewed me out later. I still have no clue why it mattered but I never did that shit again.
It matters because accounting has to ledger expenses and balance books. Its a super pain when an employee makes a non work expense and then maybe uses cash to pay off instead of the intracompany accounts, because then the outgoing and incoming doesn't zero out...usually needs a manual books adjustment to account for the discrepancies.
Accounting is a big problem.
And you can say it was jewelry for your girlfriend - but realistically it could have been literally anything else. I'm not saying illegal dugs - but it sounds really shady and it puts the responsibility on the company.
With prior communication it might had been okay with your boss, or he would have lent you his personal card for this.
Damn your drug dealer tales credit cards?? Fuckin righteous dude
It wasn't your money to spend?
It was a credit card. I paid it off with my money. I did not spend their money, only used the card.
Ever heard of paying with cash?
Credit card is money. Even worse, it is money lent to your company.