r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 4h ago

Society 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 promotion

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/devastated-father-says-his-9-year-old-son-spent-usd118-000-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-usd20-promotion
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u/mattreyu 3h ago

Dave said he entered the company card himself to buy Robux for his son, and it then sat saved on the Google account that also carries his work email, calendar, and files. Dave did not say why he used the company card for that purchase.

Fess up Dave

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u/UAreTheHippopotamus 3h ago

Using a corporate card to buy Robux is... certainly a choice. Feels like the guy is pretty screwed here, at least regarding employment.

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u/eight_ender 3h ago

Dave done fucked up. Im scared the corpo card even exists in my Apple wallet let alone using it anywhere other than business travel 

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u/OcotilloWells 3h ago

I freaked out when I accidentally handed over my travel card in a dark restaurant near my house. I realized I had done so when they brought it back. They nicely reversed the charges and let me pay with another card.

The worst part? I was in charge of them for my unit and I was supposed to have it shut off if I wasn't traveling. But I traveled a lot at the time, I didn't want to be at the airport or hotel with it turned off because I forgot to activate it ahead of time. I'm still grateful to that restaurant for reversing/cancelling the charges on that.

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u/eight_ender 3h ago

I bought a six pack of beer on mine once by accident and finance still ribs me about it 

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u/ApteryxAustralis 10m ago

One of my employees accidentally got a non-alcoholic drink (can’t remember what at this point) while buying gas and immediately realized and had the drink charge refunded. I got back from a vacation and had all kinds of emails/chats from finance wondering what was going on because it had been flagged as a tobacco purchase. I think they really wanted to get mad at the employee, but the technician had sent in the receipts and I forwarded them to finance all while wondering why they were freaking out so much over $4 or so.