Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it
After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job
ON CALL Making it through a working week can feel like a dangerous adventure. That's why The Register offers a little certainty and safety by always using Friday morning to share a new edition of On Call – the reader-contributed column sharing your tales of tech support.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Socrates," who many years ago was the "fresh-faced manager of a small software department."
Socrates' employer had sold some monitoring hardware to a client that made equipment for power stations, but whoever installed the system had neglected to document it properly.
Socrates' boss asked him to visit the site and bring the client up to speed.
"In those days I considered myself to be a bit of a programming hot-shot, and a visit to...
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