• Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    ITT: person deserves life changing debt and losing his job because he made a mistake

    Cmon yall, you can be critical of someone’s actions while also recognizing 6 figures of debt is absurd and not a reasonable outcome of this.

    What really should be the case is that the dad learns his lesson, loses company card access, kid learns his lesson, google writes it off, and the kid’s account is permanently banned.

    We don’t need to ruin someone’s life for this

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      10 hours ago

      Legally, the kid wasn’t old enough to contract the ads.

      It would not stand in court.

      I question using his work card to pay for some robucks for his kid.

      I question that his credit card was saved for Robucks, but was able to be used on Google Ads.

      I would not be surprised if he lost his job. I think that’s not unreasonable though the economy sucks.

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        9 hours ago

        Losing his job is a 50/50 IMO. We don’t know how his dad performed at work, if this is his first offense, etc. If all goes well, the dad gets google to write off the cost. Then the company sees that as a learning lesson and just revokes his card access. On the other hand, it could mean he is fired if he has already racked up other violations.

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          8 hours ago

          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.

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      10 hours ago

      Right?

      I swear people hearing stories like this want the absolute worst outcomes for everyone possible with 0 empathy.

      He likely used the company credit card once, got some pop-up and instinctively clicked “yes” as most people do causing the card to be saved to the browser.

      I’m sure the dad will find a way to reverse the damage (or at least greatly minimize it) and both will have learned their lesson.