What's the worst minor mistake you've made in terms of cost?

Nohbdy · 09-04-2012, 01:13 AM

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...