One Million Dollar Lesson

Am I the A-hole for costing my company one million dollars in a single day?

My boss fired me to save on annual bonuses, but he forgot something important.

I am the only one with the security encryption keys to our biggest financial database.

He told me my fifteen thousand dollar commission was canceled. When I asked

for severance, he just laughed. So, I walked out. An hour later,

their entire payment gateway went into lockdown. They were losing fifty thousand dollars

every ten minutes in lost sales. My boss called me crying, offering me double

my salary to come back and fix it. I told him my new consulting