On: Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers

[philliphaydon]

I used to work at a company that managed the systems for back of house in fast food chains. We moved customers from excel to an online system. Omg when it came to doing labouring in the US. It’s scary.

If a person clocks in at 9:52M. The company only has to pay them from 10am. But in other states they must pay from 9:45am. There’s so much complexity in the us due to all states being different.

[_tom_ → philliphaydon]

It's so much worse than that. Some payroll tax laws vary by SCHOOL DISTRICT of the employee.

[sharken → _tom_]

Much like airport taxes around the world are also different and can change at any time.

It is an interesting challenge though, to create software that is easy to maintain while capturing all these complexities.