COBOL Payroll problem message.
While working in the programming department one day, I heard one of my co-workers swearing like a sailor quite loudly. I asked him what was wrong. He replied, "Come here, you have to see this."
We were working in a COBOL environment on an IBM 4341. My co-worker had just been assigned to maintain the payroll system which was home grown. He was attempting to modify the main calculation program which had to be the best example of spaghetti code ever seen in the universe. When I went to his cube and he showed me what was making him red faced.
He was chasing threw the program logic when he found he had now gone to the following paragraph heading and command.
IF-YOU-ARE-HERE-SOMETHING-IS-TERRIBLY-WRONG.
STOP.
