In Q2 this year, our fortune 500 company had a major fuck up. Essentially one of our biggest business partners were disputing charges of 8 billion USD. The company needed people to look into the customers accounts in our system and match the transactions from their system with transactions in our system. It was supposed to take months and countless employees reviewing the transactions full time. Me and my teammate, who are software developers, were included on one of the conferences about this issue, and we announced we could easily automate this process within 2 business days. Code development went smoothly and we had our automation running. In 1 day we were able to identify all discrepancies, and saved the company literal millions. All our bosses, and our bosses bosses were extremely happy. I had numerous calls with people way above my boss in the corporate hierarchy, everyone sucking my dick over how great of a job we did, and how this would not go unnoticed and well definitely get the appreciation due to us. 3 quarters pass and we get our prizes. They turned out to be small glass statues with our names and the company logos plastered all over them.