THEM: And it worked! Your code was great! In fact, it was so successful that it made several million in its first few weeks!
ME: 😵
THEM: …and it was so much money that it showed up as a line item on a report to the CEO, and the CEO said, “What's this?,” and when they told him, he said, “We're doing WHAT?!? Why are we selling our house-brand products on somebody else's platform??? Shut that down NOW!!!” and they pulled the plug on the whole thing!
I guess neither manager got that promotion.