How does $100k per character sound? And that’s just for labour
Who, Me? Wave a cheery goodbye to the weekend, and start the week with a hot beverage, a pastry or two and a freshly unearthed tale from the Who, Me? catacombs. „James“ is the Regomised teller of today’s tale, which takes us back 20 years to the financial sector. It was a time of acquisitions; his employer had just snapped up a competitor. Not that it mattered to R, he was serving out his notice prior to a move to a workplace closer to home. The banking world was being dragged kicking and screaming into the new century and James‘ employer was no exception. It offered its business customers all manner of cutting-edge services, including the ability to upload a file containing all cheques received that day (rather than requiring them to enter data by hand or send scans to the bank). Well, perhaps not that cutting edge. While the file could be uploaded many times a day, it had to contain all the day’s cheques since it would be overwritten every time. The newly acquired bank had whizzier tech. Its customers could also upload the cheque file many times a day, but the files only needed to contain new data. The file on the server would be appended to. So how to deal with the overwriting problem? „This web software,“ James told us, „was provided by an outsourced vendor and, when asked what it would take to fix the issue, the response was, ‚$100,000 and six months‘.
