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What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost? #1
So apparantly, for the last 3 months, my employer has been running on new subscriptions only...

Backstory: About 3 months ago, I found out about a somewhat potentially massive security vulnerability with my employers storefront. So I helped, and proceeded to transfer his whmcs installation onto a separate VPS, one where only the store was on the vps. WHMCS requires a daily cron job run from ./admin/cron.php .

So I put the cron job down as "wget -o https://my.employ.er/admin/cron.php".

Cloudflare blocks wget.

Today, my employer starts an audit.

"Gee, why are there so many overdue payments?"

Well, depending on how this plays out, I possibly lost my employer upwards of $10,000.

Oops.

On a better note, this'll look great to our investor performancewise. You see, they just invested $12,000. If we regain that $10,000 loss, the value of that portion goes to $13,000 $15,000.

EDIT: Math doesn't check out there...
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2012, 01:19 AM by Nohbdy.)

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RE: What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost? #2
I've never had anything like this happen to me - but I do remember paying £299 more for a jacket where it was £99 on another site - was gutted when I saw :p

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RE: What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost? #3
Haven't happened this to me yet. But, if he's a smart employer, he should have approved anything before shelling out some money.

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RE: What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost? #4
(09-07-2012, 06:08 AM)antonino Wrote: Haven't happened this to me yet. But, if he's a smart employer, he should have approved anything before shelling out some money.

He didn't shell out any money. This was a bug with our sales software.

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RE: What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost? #5
I accidently bought hosting from NameCheap with a domain, for a year, when I already had hosting. Pissed me off.
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RE: What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost? #6
No not really unless i bought a item and saw it cheaper some where else but thats all i can think of really that i have lost out on
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RE: What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost? #7
I paid for phone insurance and car breakdown cover, only to afterwards realise i could have got it for free because of extra benifits from my bank account. I was gutted Tongue

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RE: What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost? #8
I didn't use a number 2 pencil on my finals and failed history and math. That will probably effect my future. Well in costs, I used to have a very rare item in TF2 which I could of sold for thousands of dollars.
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RE: What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost? #9
(01-16-2013, 02:28 AM)Johnny Wrote: I didn't use a number 2 pencil on my finals and failed history and math. That will probably effect my future. Well in costs, I used to have a very rare item in TF2 which I could of sold for thousands of dollars.
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My sister did the exact same thing on hers, although only for one part. She still got it marked, though. It's just a precaution in case of smudging where I'm from, so if you do use pencil and it smudges, your fault. Is it a broken rule, hence no mark, over where you live? I'm in Australia btw.
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(01-16-2013, 02:34 AM)Phytrix Wrote:
(01-16-2013, 02:28 AM)Johnny Wrote: I didn't use a number 2 pencil on my finals and failed history and math. That will probably effect my future. Well in costs, I used to have a very rare item in TF2 which I could of sold for thousands of dollars.
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My sister did the exact same thing on hers, although only for one part. She still got it marked, though. It's just a precaution in case of smudging where I'm from, so if you do use pencil and it smudges, your fault. Is it a broken rule, hence no mark, over where you live? I'm in Australia btw.

I live in California. I can't make it up Sad I didn't know that I had used it until after everything was sent in.
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