I had a job like that back in the day (circa 2000). I remember one stretch where for a solid month around 50 developers did nothing but call in to Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? to try to become a contestant. Ironically, one web app I wrote for them (with Visual Basic and "Classic" ASP) is still in use today -- and it was a front end for a mainframe system that dated to the 1980s, which means that's still up and running as well.

[–] Logical@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Actually now that you mention it I kinda had a job like that for a brief period (though not at a very big company). It was a very chill (almost too much so), zero stress maintenance job, but it paid sooo much less than the one I have now (like a third of the money) that I probably couldn't go back and still make ends meet even if I wanted to.