• mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    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.

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      10 hours ago
      • 9 yo Kid is making vidya
      • Doesn’t have many viewers
      • Want to make kid happy
      • Spend 20 $ on ads
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      • Three weeks later
      • I’m literally 118 009 $ in debt

      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”.

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        7 hours ago

        Allowing a child to associate their happiness with view counts is a terrible idea. Already too many sociopaths in “content creation” as it is.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Blame the dad

      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.

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        17 minutes ago

        I don’t disagree that the companies should have measures in place but the point still stands. Dad needs to be smarter. He did a lot wrong.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      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.

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      10 hours ago

      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.