One of my first real jobs in the world was working as a computer programmer at the fancy headquarters of a big US retailer in the late 90s. I was an employee, but worked with a team of consultants that the company had hired on to help with Y2K code remediation. These consultants, with their old skills were now tripling and quadrupling their pay as the demand to fix the old … [Read more...] about The Tale of Bad Car Bill