Wastage

So. This morning I finally started to be able to work on a project to which I was assigned like a week ago.

The delay? We are currently working on an area of code that's stored and controlled by the most ancient and archaic policies and tools we have. It's so old that I can now answer questions like "Who the hell would still use it, and why?"

The next question is, how many weeks of coder-time have they lost because they could simply have gone to something a bit neweer instead of working on all these hacks designed specifically to work the same way on the older tools? It's like trying to emulate a wheel using only cubes.

So, this week has cost my company Thousands. On me alone. Who else has run into the same problem?