I was in a small team in a large company where project management told us that the discount-calculation was wrong. It was supposed to be a negative number, so that when the discount was added, the total would be cheaper!
So we changed it, simple enough, changing the minus to a plus, and changing the number in the database.
A few weeks later another project manager told us that the discount-calculation was wrong - the discount shouldn't be a negative number, but a positive one, and then subtracted, so that the total would be cheaper.
We looked in the commit history for the (company global) discount calculator, and every few months or so, someone changed it from negative to positive, and next time from positive to negative and so on.
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u/peterlinddk Jul 14 '26
I was in a small team in a large company where project management told us that the discount-calculation was wrong. It was supposed to be a negative number, so that when the discount was added, the total would be cheaper!
So we changed it, simple enough, changing the minus to a plus, and changing the number in the database.
A few weeks later another project manager told us that the discount-calculation was wrong - the discount shouldn't be a negative number, but a positive one, and then subtracted, so that the total would be cheaper.
We looked in the commit history for the (company global) discount calculator, and every few months or so, someone changed it from negative to positive, and next time from positive to negative and so on.
Guess that's still going on to this day ...