Wayback Wednesday: So much for job security

The big insurance company where this pilot fish works buys up a small outfit that handles workers’ compensation claims.

“The small outfit's sole customer was a city government, which was the only reason we bought it,” says fish. “The claims application was written in a PC DOS database.”

The app's developer — who's also the former owner of the workers’ comp company — has written the app in such a way that, at the end of each year, he has to manually tweak all the menus to add the new year.

So when fish’s company buys out the small outfit, the developer is kept on retainer for $12,000 per year to provide the necessary, er, maintenance.

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from Computerworld https://ift.tt/2RoRkF4