the stupidest code ever award is still retained by the guy who thought it wasn't a problem for the expected case of his math formula

is to divide by zero.

oh, and to not handle the exception when that explodes

he claimed to have a Masters in Math from a university in India. Yeah, right.

anyway, this code is not quite that moronic but it is just so wrong that I can't look at it.

sounds like you're looking at something my co-worker wrote... His manages to work somehow though.

we have a table named AlertDisplayText

and the alert display text is being generated (complete with logic to determine whether to use "a" or "an")

even though all the code has to do is get by primary key!

this is weeks worth of work that doesn't scale to new alerts and it would have taken HALF AN HOUR to do it right

knows that feeling well

some people should simply not be paid by the hour

Some people simply should not write code.

I probably shouldn't do either. But I love to see the looks on my co-worker's faces when they read my code.