Why You Don't Want to Code for a Government Department

One of my coworkers once worked for a company that sold software to the government. Their software didn't work - at all. It didn't run. However, this being the government and the company being staffed with excellent salespeople, they didn't find that out until they'd already forked over their million dollars or so. They just ate the cost and never used the software.

The kicker was that the project was classified, and so the government agency couldn't tell anyone that the program didn't work. Not even other government agencies. So this company went right ahead selling the same software-that-didn't-work to multiple government agencies.

Your tax dollars at work.