Dirty Beluga posted:

we paid an offshore team to write a some financial software that involved taking in various data feeds from large banks. The system worked great until one day it didnt so we called up and they told us that the guy drowned and and was a bad employee because he had been doing the work manually never wrote the software.

We still work with them, the backend is a nightmare of hacks but it works as long as no body else on the team drowns.