One Million Dollar Mistake

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 that 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 my severance pay, 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 fix it. I told him my new consulting