overage

True but as OP said, such overage charge is plain robbery.

If Apple thinks $70K/week is high for lawyers, wait until they get the overage bills from their new HQ building contractors.

I'm not sure why or how an expense like that on an overage like that on a major payroll system would not be on the mayor's daily agenda. The right people must have been getting those kickbacks.

Or perhaps an email saying "We're past the limit you set, approve the overage in the next X hours by clicking this link". That way you don't cut off accidentally during a spike you want, but know about it.

No overage fees for using your own money. Accepted everywhere already.

And charging obscene overage charges is abusive. Especially after we have all already dispensed with the "but bandwidth is a precious limited resource, like oil!"

In return, they usually have a very low data allowance and high to very high overage charges. Basically, it puts the pressure on the company to ensure that their equipment is properly configured and really doesn't use a large amount of data.

As might be expected with anything "flashy" or "cool" in a company not exactly defined by those adjectives, there was a shortage of skill and an overage of opinions. Only after true "ship it" crush set in did the less qualified people seem to scurry away and worry about little details like, oh, an entire laptop product line that didn't boot.

They wanted to lock us in, have us buy a machine, had various types of statement fees and monthly fees, transaction fees, overage fees, fees for using too few transactions, higher fees for Amex vs Visa, etc. Simply put, figuring out the exact % of our incoming money that this would take was impossible.