If you were MEANT to understand it, we wouldn't have called it 'code'

I'm looking over code from my last job. This is not my code, mind you--these were written by my guys in my last gig. I've been looking at them for the last three days or so, and, damned if I haven't grown thirty years older in frustration.

I'm not saying their code was bad... I'm saying their code was fucking horrifying. It's not even The Daily WTF-bad. It's the Oh-ghod-please-help-me-manage-to-get-these-fuckers-out-the-back-so-I-can-shoot-them-dead kind of bad.

Sure, it's just a job: you get paid regardless of the quality of your code (until you get fired) and you won't get awards by writing elegant code, anyway. But, I mean, for ghod's sake... Why write code that makes it look like you went out of your way to actually fuck it up?

By no means am I a good code monkey, but, by-ghod, I try my best. And, to be honest, I actually find it harder to write bad code in the long run, because then I'd have to be high to be able to understand what I wrote when I wrote it.

I'm so pissed right now, I'm actually cursing and stomping while I'm fuming and writing this.