Data cleanser did its job, but – oopsie! – also doubled customers' bills
Rigorous dev courageously lied about exec's NSFW printouts – and survived long enough to quit with dignity
In the second month, chaos reigned. While the outgoings were fine, the incomings were causing problems. Residents' payments were effectively double what they should have been and, understandably, this did not make them happy and some were not afraid to say it. Well, it seemed, his clever filter was catching all of the mistaken data and cleaning it up before passing on to the interface file. But it didn't actually have a procedure to clear itself.
Once the smoke had cleared, a tense meeting with the auditors took place. Bernard argued that his task was to ensure the data in the interface file was valid – not that it was correct. The mainframe team argued that their job was to ensure that the interface file was full – not that it got cleared afterwards.
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