Junior Developer's Code Worked In Tests, Destroyed Data In Production
The Register, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage
Alas, the weekend is over, but The Register tries to make your entry to the working week a little more enjoyable by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? - the column in which you explain your worst slip-ups.
This week, we have two readers for you to meet!
The first asked to be Regomized as "Reggie" because he thought that would be quite funny. We've indulged him.
"I was just a year out of college and in my first job, working on accounting systems for the phone company," Reggie told Who, Me?
One day, Reggie's boss assigned him to another team that needed someone to zero out a database field in a sub-record used to store important information about employees' insurance.