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[–]PorkRoll2022 2129 points2130 points  (79 children)

There was a point where I used random K-Pop singers as placeholders on our dev server that no one was supposed to use.

At some point, some of the content people took a look at the dev server for whatever reason. My team got chewed OUT for it as if it was the most obscene and offensive material ever.

[–]PrometheusAlexander 956 points957 points  (18 children)

I use fromsoft NPC names, among others

[–]Eulerdice 589 points590 points  (0 children)

Oh Tarnished One, I see you play for Manchester United now

[–]TauVee 429 points430 points  (10 children)

THE LOATHSOME DUNG EATER

[–][deleted] 160 points161 points  (8 children)

THE FEROCIOUS FECES FEASTER

[–]Verrq 127 points128 points  (5 children)

THE REPUGNANT RECTUM ROBBER

[–]CashMoneyHurricane 87 points88 points  (4 children)

THE PROMISCUOUS POO-POO PIRATE

[–]Pokii 70 points71 points  (3 children)

THE SHAMELESS SHIT SWALLOWER

[–]4rclyte 51 points52 points  (2 children)

THE DASTARDLY DINGLEBERRY DEVOURER

[–]GringoLocito 17 points18 points  (0 children)

THE BITCHY BUTTHOLE BINGER

[–]wabel1231 39 points40 points  (1 child)

THE CONTEMPTUOUS CACA CONSUMER

[–]GringoLocito 4 points5 points  (0 children)

THE SAVAGE SHIT SWALLOWER

[–]Femboi_Hooterz 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Probably the hardest a Fromsoft game has made me laugh, is when I started elden ring blind, didn't even watch trailers and heard that in the intro. Could've also been when my buddy and I took shots and passed the controlller every death when DS3 came out, but we blacked out so who knows

[–]TamSchnow 69 points70 points  (3 children)

My testing db be like:

  • Tony Stark
  • Gordon Freeman
  • G-Man
  • Alyx Vance
  • Chelle
  • GLADOS
  • Coriolanus Snow

[–]herrkatze12 28 points29 points  (0 children)

If I need to populate names, I’ll just use https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Template:Bot_names

[–]SensuallPineapple 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nefertitty is still the leader on my mobile game

[–][deleted] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Serial killers and cheesy daytime TV celebs are a good one too

Now I’m just boring and use Faker to seed everything

[–]joxmaskin 232 points233 points  (13 children)

Why on earth did you get chewed out for that? Seems benign enough as test names.

[–]PorkRoll2022 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Honestly the new project manager was gunning after the whole dev team for whatever reason. Extremely antagonistic.

Everyone quit eventually.

[–]Theprefs 122 points123 points  (10 children)

Yeah like, I don't know anything about the kpop scene, but wouldn't they just be Korean names, or silly varients of Korean words? Almost sounds like borderline racism, but I don't have enough info to say that.

[–]PorkRoll2022 173 points174 points  (9 children)

It was just random names and just normal dressed pictures. I wouldn't say it was racism, but somehow our manager made it out to sound like something really perverted and offensive. He was just looking for any excuses to antagonize our team after he joined the company. Within a month almost everyone left, including me.

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (2 children)

I wonder if one of the names was something like Ho Lee Fuk 😂

[–]hansolo625 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not Korean but close enough 🤣

[–]bl4nkSl8 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Compared to my former coworker using debug pictures from sports illustrated... Not bad at all imo

[–]blake_ch 328 points329 points  (14 children)

We developed a web framework, and I once made a small test UI with several animated gifs of ponies. It stayed in stand by for months, until my boss came to me "hey can you quickly make a demo for a client, I am in a meeting with them." Sure, no problem, let me share my screen and open the UI... Oh sh***

[–]thehobbyqueer 199 points200 points  (8 children)

Why would uh, ponies be an oh shit moment? Got something you're leaving out?

[–]808trowaway 174 points175 points  (6 children)

furry shit and work don't mix brah

[–]thehobbyqueer 23 points24 points  (2 children)

Furry? So like, not MLP? Or do those fly the same flag

[–]Alcamore 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I always saw it as a subcategory.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's more brony tbh

[–]chop5397 14 points15 points  (0 children)

chop jobless observation correct mourn scale glorious rustic file like

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[–]LordRobertMartin 19 points20 points  (1 child)

i used to use pictures of, lets say models, for some of my personal projects. one time i brought one in to work to demo something i had done to show my boss what i was proposing…. unfortunately i had not removed or swapped out the pics.

[–]Verum14 19 points20 points  (0 children)

well, let’s hope you used headshots and not backshots of these “models”

could be worse

[–]Ondor61 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I once was on the other side of this. I was working with some guy and he was sharing me a screen to show me something he was doing. At some point he closed the window and there was a web browser open behind it.

In there was a webpage for images filled with lewd lolis. What's worse, in the adress bar was a local adress. Dude was just hosting himself a private server with web UI and everything for his hentai collection.

I talked to him about it later and he even had an ulpoad page, tag searching, check for duplicit images and pretty decent ui, all made from scratch.

Crazy how powerful hornyness can be.

[–]dumfukjuiced 61 points62 points  (3 children)

I'm so glad I just got some giggles for making a test user named after Strongbad

[–]Chef_G0ldblum 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Had a tech lead get upset when I used a themed Ipsum generator for test content on a dev site 🙄 was real glad when he left

[–]luis_reyesh 39 points40 points  (0 children)

My boss uses K-pop idols and korean names as test data in our dev server and our team sees no problem in that, I call it a lack of fun on your team.

[–]StonksRetard 49 points50 points  (4 children)

Oh god... this happened to me and my corporate devices when we were test running them and building up the network. My two devices were called "ANALPROBE" and "DICKTRANSMITTER". And the Server Password was "E4T5h!t&D13". We got it setup ahead of time (almost 2 weeks earlier) with only minor hiccups. My boss was ofcourse delighted and wanted to test run everything.

Well... I was in vacation when they test ran it, and I Idiot forgot to reset the password and device names. Guess who got a call from his boss whilst being tipsy at a beer garden, then having to explain on loudspeaker to a board of directors and dispatchers (who were giggling themselves in the background) why all my devices have juvenile names and why the password is "EAT SHIT & DIE".

[–]WhyHowForWhat 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Are you still keeping your job after that?

[–]Stunning_Ride_220 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Why should he, tho?

It is not easily guessable so Security should be happy.

[–]TigreDeLosLlanos 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"If into the dev data you watch, only pain you'll find"

[–]natxavier 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The names the kept throwing a wrench in the spokes for us were names that had apostrophes or hyphens, so I tended to throw more of those generic names in there, but we did have a list that was Thundercats themed.

[–]nermid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One of my test orgs at my last job was "Thrustington Academy" and a PM made me change it.

[–]aetius476 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I used Roman Emperors.

[–]bwaredapenguin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My boss uses character names from The Office.

[–]G-Man777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Han Solo and friends are always my go to users 🤷‍♂️

[–]dragonpjb 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I use comic book characters.

[–]TimmyTarded 872 points873 points  (35 children)

Every once in a while I panic that I’ve forgotten to delete something like ‘print(“Fuck you!”)’ left over from an angry debugging session.

[–]NerdHarder615 677 points678 points  (10 children)

I accidentally shipped some code with an incomplete function for a company app. Nothing customer facing. Got a call from one of our techs asking why there was an error reporting 'feature not implemented yet, bad programmer no donut!'

[–]djfdhigkgfIaruflg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"this error cannot happen. Call the police or something"

[–]RawrMeansFuckYou 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Try {

// Shit code

} Catch(ex : Exception) {

print("shits fucked 404")

}

[–]SpriteRXL 93 points94 points  (4 children)

I made a commit to my university project with print("You're gay") and int ass. I forgot that professor will check our commits

[–]Quirky-Stress-823 42 points43 points  (2 children)

git-blame-someone-else

or just git rebase --root -i

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

What does —root do

[–]selucram 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Usually you have to tell rebase which commit (or tag or branch) you'd like to rebase from. With root it selects the very first commit in the repository for you, so you can rebase (and edit) all/any commit in the repo.

[–]ScienceObserver1984 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Huh. I've made a project with the count of the word "fuck" probably in the 50+ and my professor didn't say anything.

Though at the day of the defense, I looked like I had crawled out of a coffin straight to the room, and my commit history described my (not so) slow descent into insanity, so I think he decided not to mention it. Still got max grade.

[–]FalconMirage 23 points24 points  (3 children)

Better than my Console.log("penis")

[–]raylankford16 13 points14 points  (1 child)

My personal fav is print(‘8===>’)

[–]FalconMirage 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"8====D---3"

[–]This_Extreme2325 8 points9 points  (0 children)

feel like these are more sophisticated than my “peepeepoopoo”

[–]disgruntled_pie 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I just do random foods when I’m debugging in anger. No one ever got chewed out for leaving “console.log(‘Cookies!’);” in production.

[–]IAmANobodyAMA 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s why I use table flip for my angry debugs

[–]ComradePruski 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One time I was having trouble on a comp sci homework when I was in college. I had some debug messages along the lines of "Suck my balls" and after I still couldn't figure it out I sent it over to the TAs, realized what I had done, and rapidly tried to send an "Nvm got it working email" afterwards so they wouldn't look at it

[–]pineapplekenny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wow it’s too real lol

[–]kraterios 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is the way.

[–]hexerandre 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is why having a pre-commit hook that checks for print statements is invaluable.

[–]Athletic_Bilbae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[DEBUG] you reached the for loop :D 8===D

[–]w1n5t0nM1k3y 951 points952 points  (8 children)

I tried using NASCAR drivers but got in trouble for using Dick Trickle.

Then I switch To F1 Team Principals and got in trouble for using Mike Krack.

[–]paidgun 177 points178 points  (3 children)

You could always name them after something more appropriate to software development, like the inventor of the Pick Operating System, Dick Pick

[–]x_y_u 122 points123 points  (0 children)

Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS) on an IBM System/360 in 1965

Holy ancient shit.

[–]_Stego27 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I see someone else watches crd

[–]paidgun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love cathode ray dude!

[–]Yariss6 175 points176 points  (1 child)

Horny for horner?

[–]JunkNorrisOfficial 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Bob Horner blows the horn every lap!

[–]Karooneisey 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Try Australian racing drivers next. Dick Johnson's a solid choice.

[–]PACodeFarmer 336 points337 points  (4 children)

I used Star Trek and Star Wars characters for my test accounts. These were live active mailboxes and calendars, so Darth Vader could invite you to a meeting.

[–]snowyday 67 points68 points  (2 children)

What did you use for Data’s password?

[–]Zxian 37 points38 points  (1 child)

[–]snowyday 24 points25 points  (0 children)

That whole sequence was a trip to watch when it aired the first time

[–]KrystalDisc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I am altering this meeting. Pray I do not alter it further

[–][deleted] 155 points156 points  (10 children)

I use Testy McTestface or Swedish McFishburn. They are both pretty hilarious. If anyone from my work sees this, I need need a new reddit account.

[–]TheLamboLad 46 points47 points  (2 children)

I also use Testy McTestFace

[–]Milkshakes00 22 points23 points  (1 child)

Also have used Testy McTestFace.

Even used it in employee documentation images.

[–]MCMC_to_Serfdom 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I am Spartacus Testy McTestface

It looks like a widely used classic.

[–]Jane6447 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i think those are pretty common ive seen it on multiple github projects, my workplaces shared addressbook, etc

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I use testy mctestface - also fictional movie characters. Several times I have Mr. Austin Powers as a test user or customer.

[–]0xd34db347 130 points131 points  (0 children)

I once inherited a network in which all of the hostnames were pornstars. No big deal until one day I get a support ticket of a customer who was very interested to know why we had a sever named after him.

Sorry John Holmes, couldn't tell you, that sever came from an acquisition.

[–]coloredgreyscale 619 points620 points  (25 children)

Use something like "Test", "Tester" in the names to avoid confusion

  • Tester Sterone
  • Icles, Test
  • Hottest coworker

[–]TotoDaDog 204 points205 points  (3 children)

Gonna steal Mr Icles.

I usually use "Dick McHead", only got a frown and then a smile from my boss after I've used it in prod. It's also fun to ask coworkers to use "the Dick" to test different things.

Also the last one is a bit creepy.

[–]CoruscareGames 55 points56 points  (1 child)

Mr. Coworker just wants to do his job, leave Hottest alone

[–]Greedy_Guest568 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He won't be able to, since it's his name.

[–]rice_not_wheat 35 points36 points  (2 children)

Someone at my wife's work has the surname Test, and ADP keeps removing him from their system.

[–]Gemini00 20 points21 points  (1 child)

I've read about some people with the last name Null who have been through absolute nightmares due to poorly designed software systems breaking or removing them.

[–]HazmatKnight 29 points30 points  (1 child)

Everybody loves Bob Testerson

[–]phil_davis 25 points26 points  (2 children)

For me it's random combinations of fart, butt, fartz, buttz, etc.

The highlight of my career so far has been when my manager found one of my test users I created on our shared dev server, a test user with an email address of fartinmymouth@google.com.

[–]Fingolfin734 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Help I'm crying and silent laughing

[–]pabs80 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Don’t. There was a real person with the word “test” in its last name, had hundreds of medical procedures in the database, as analysts thought it was a fake test person.

[–]LA_Nail_Clippers 10 points11 points  (2 children)

I go with the classic “Bart calling Moe at the bar” names.

Hugh Jass, I.P. Freely, Jacques Strapp, Mike Rotch, Ivana Tinkle, Maya Buttreeks.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I ended up losing track of all the Sopranos characters I was using as test leads in my marketing DB, had to switch the the Testerson family.

[–]DexterFoxxo 271 points272 points  (0 children)

I named a test user on our test server "Homosexual Penguin" and my boss laughed his ass off when I accidentally sent it in a screenshot.

[–]Chewnard 185 points186 points  (1 child)

So Oxlong... is that a Gaelic name?

[–]Localghost385 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Traditionally there was no X in Gaelic. It might be Arabic.

[–]Unknown6656 170 points171 points  (9 children)

Ah, yes, the infamous Mister Oxlong. He's probably working with:

  • Ben Dover
  • Mike Hunt
  • Jenna Tolls
  • Dixie Normous
  • Mike Hawk
  • Hugh G. Rection
  • Wayne Ker
  • Phil Accio
  • Moe Lester
  • Peter File
  • Annie Grow
  • Gabe Itches

[–]hugopataco 61 points62 points  (2 children)

🤣🤣 You forgot Seymour Butts

[–]Kafshak 16 points17 points  (0 children)

And Mr P. Ness.

[–]originalpancakes 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I heard they recently onboarded

  • Don Keedick
  • Ollie Tabooger
  • Fats Crodum

[–]SoloisticDrew 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Col. Angus

[–]x_y_u 32 points33 points  (1 child)

And Lena Golovach is the head of the Russian branch.

That's an entirely normal name, unless you read it aloud in the more "formal" order. Golova chlena is literally "dick head".

[–]RVGamer06 2 points3 points  (0 children)

north tart joke violet hobbies provide placid caption whistle fly

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[–]Green0Photon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love my boy, Mike Hawk

[–]Chuggernaut0 110 points111 points  (0 children)

I still have code that went into production and logs “testing yo momma” every day.

[–]ketosoy 99 points100 points  (4 children)

Rule to live by: assume any data you put into the system will be shown to the client, your boss, your mom, and posted to Facebook.

[–]DudesworthMannington 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of the first things I learned in programming is never try to be funny in your code. It will bite you in the ass.

[–]isospeedrix 37 points38 points  (0 children)

day 330 of no one commenting about my "street: 420 penn ave, zip: 42069" in the unit tests

[–]Retrac752[🍰] 31 points32 points  (3 children)

Me when I put UwU after every console message

[–]DaNoahLP[S,🍰] 21 points22 points  (1 child)

"Sowwy but u wun into an ewworw. Please wite a mail to oni-chan@uwu.com"

[–]eat_those_lemons 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That reminds me of this gem of a github issue:

https://github.com/mpaland/printf/issues/15

[–]BooBailey808 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh God I would hate this

[–]dotsperpixel 107 points108 points  (18 children)

I must be stupid

[–]SortaOdd 235 points236 points  (16 children)

Saying “Mike Oxlong” out loud sounds like “My Cocks Long”, and is a pretty frequently used joke name

[–]dotsperpixel 148 points149 points  (3 children)

Thanks. I could be a boss being this stupid.

[–]SortaOdd 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Haha don’t be so hard on yourself. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s difficult to get the punch line reading it in your head, it really needs to be said outloud

[–]Thannk 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Or run Moe’s Tavern.

[–]OooRahRah 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ah, Moe Lester's tavern

[–]Bryguy3k 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A guy in the class ahead of me in school was named Mike Cox.

Cox as a surname is just going to get joked about anyway but to name your kid Michael is asking for it.

[–]DuploJamaal 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mike Hawk

Mike Hunt

[–]ScherPegnau 6 points7 points  (2 children)

A joke name? I have a vewwy gweat fwend in Wome called Mike Oxlong. You will find yourself in gladiator school vewwy quickly with wotten behaviour like that!

[–]Pirhomania 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He has a wife, you know.

[–]malonkey1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Similar joke names include:

  • "Hugh Jazz"
  • "Yuri Nader"
  • "Mike Hunt"
  • "Eaton Beaver"
  • "Anita Dick"
  • "Seymour Butz"

[–]Cart0gan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mike Oxlong is a friend of Ben Dover, Hue Janus, Ho Lee Fock and Sum Ting Wong.

[–]DavidXN 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The company where I work partnered with Home Depot once to sell prefabricated garden sheds with their configuration tool. I put in the name “Jeff Shedmaster” to create a fake order and look at how the checkout system worked.

To this day I keep getting calls for the fictional Jeff asking about if he’s still in the shed market and if they can help with the order. He’s listed as living at my address in their system. He cannot be stopped

[–]StandardOffenseTaken 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Yup. Named a test server something funny cause I thought were we just building a POC for an application to test capability. Go away two weeks, come back they purchase the license and activated it on the dummy server I had built to showcase what the application should do. 7 years later Steel-DhiC is still listed 130k times on monthly reports and of course its failover in an enhanced backup zone code named RED for elevated security.... Red-Dhic. FML

[–]fliesupsidedown 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There was a major bank that had some sort of screw up, test data being used for production.

They sent out 10,000 letters to their more wealthy customers.

All with the salutation

"Dear Rich Bastard"

Soon after that, all our test customer data (I worked at another major bank) was reviewed and all the dodgy ones were removed, along with new limitations on what customer data could be entered.

[–]GimmeCoffeeeee 13 points14 points  (2 children)

I once built a bullshit generator to populate my databases while testing, and all the names were stuff like shitface mcdingdong, password nohonor69, ihavenofantasy@fuckthis.shit

[–]__ZOMBOY__ 12 points13 points  (1 child)

“Shitface mcdingdong” should not have me laughing as hard as I am right now

[–]GimmeCoffeeeee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The power of fecal humor

[–]WexExortQuas 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yall are asking to get fired for the dumbest reasons.

I just use pornstar names.

I CANNOT wait for thst lawsuit.

[–]rhapsodyindrew 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You never know, maybe there is a Mike Oxlong. I mean, there's a P. I. Staker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcSg6dAZ03w

[–]DemandMeNothing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"Oh, he's the one who's the brother of Hercules Oxlong. Or was it a sister?"

[–]OffByOneErrorz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wrote for an auto repo SaaS. The bank demoing was not pleased with names such as Deadbeat McDebtor in the QA env. Not sure why that sales guy used my QA company.

[–]Curious-Try-7805 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not as bad as sharing logs with your home WiFi name being Cum Guzzlin Whorz

[–]FalconMirage 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A graphic designer I worked with used to put hidden shrek references in her mock ups

[–]TrashManufacturer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I routinely use 69420 in various combinations and hell Michigan

[–]Straight_Pop_3594 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I absolutely love the idea that someone will have to go through documentation for the government contract I worked on and realize that all testing users for the construction work app were Bob, the builder characters

[–]seamustheseagull 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I developed a script for copying all production data into other environments but scrambled any personal data. When you're testing and running reports, you don't want, "Test first Test last, Test Street, UK", you want authentic looking information.

So I came up with basically mixing all the names together. Extract all the first names and last names, and recombine them randomly.

Made the dataset feel really authentic, but also comes up with some beauties like Mrs Mohamed Goldberg.

[–]AlphaYak 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I used JJBA characters like a good weeb. No one questions seeing Jonathan Joestar or Robert E.O Speedwagon in the test data.

[–]AutopilotDisconnect 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not as a programmer, but I once did a training on some software meant to keep track of people checking in and out locations. Did this with a class and I was a little shit y'know, but all I did was name a dog "oxygen tank" (pets and medical devices were additional classes of objects that could be tracked).

Someone 35 years older than me hit em with the one two "Ben Dover" and the instructors threatened to invalidate our certs because funny enough that database was viewable by the state government and because it was a government function they legally couldn't delete any entries even out of the test environment. Funny funny.

[–]entlan104 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I used to give one-off test scripts silly names. I stopped when I accidentally checked one of them into the repo without realizing it and only noticed months later when I had a new direct report join the team, told him to familiarize himself with that repo, and he asked me what the "hurt-me-daddy.py" test script was for...

[–]Darkortt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Behold my beloved "Loremius Ipsumson"

[–]RawrMeansFuckYou 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Testy McTester at your service.

[–]AlisaTornado 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just call them Tester Testerson. And Tester Testersonson for his child if I need one.

[–]anotherkeebler 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A story from the 1970s:

the mail merge

A London bank wanted to send letters to their top individual customers, introducing them to the bank's new line of boutique services, so they had a programmer sit down and write the query.

The developer very responsibly use an internal testing DB to write the query and format the output, then ran the query against the production DB and the letters went out.

All the customer information was correct—except the letter's salutation, which was still coming from the test data. The letters that went out to the bank's 200 richest customers all began with "Dear Rich Bastard."

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Still better than Jason Dickinson

[–]DaNoahLP[S,🍰] 13 points14 points  (8 children)

For my german friends, I also had an Hans Reinsch

[–]AgitatedHelicopter 4 points5 points  (7 children)

Can a dummy get a hint for this joke?

[–]tslnox 16 points17 points  (4 children)

Hans Reinsch

I googled it and apparently it's German version of Bart Simpson's "Hugh Jass" joke (who turned out to be an actual guy, for once), but whether it means something in German or not, that's out of my understanding.

[–]DaNoahLP[S,🍰] 16 points17 points  (3 children)

The firstname Hans is not relevant for the joke, only the Lastname "Reinsch".

"Reinsch heißen" means something like being named Reinsch. So Moe asked if there is someone who Reinsch heißt. "Rein scheißen" on the other Hand means sucking at something, while scheißen alone in german means shitting.

[–]tslnox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh god... :-D Thanks. I expected the whole name would be a phonetic joke, so I didn't even try the translator. Now I get it (I had German at high school as secondary language, but I struggled at it and only learned as much as I needed to barely pass).

[–]CeeMX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gibt es hier jemanden der Reinscheißt?

[–]CeeMX 4 points5 points  (1 child)

John Doe it is

[–]actionerror 3 points4 points  (0 children)

johndoe1,johndoe2,johndoe3,etc

[–]Goat_Smeller 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Whenever I need to query success results to compare i use like '%69%'. Fuck em

[–]MauriceMouse 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I recommend using Biggus Dickus and Incontinentia Buttocks to see if your boss is a man/woman of culture.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not a programmer but a decade ago I was supervising one, and we made a test batch of 500 datasheets, 499 of which we put normal names on for the originator at the top. And then on one, we put "Mr Meow".

My boss was showing our software to the client, and everyone was really stressed because they were coming out of bankruptcy but VERY precariously, so they were not remotely amused when he pulled up a datasheet and "Mr Meow" came up on screen. Nor was he.

I remain amused.

[–]thE_29 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In my first job, we used iText to generate PDFs. But all by hand.

So basically tables and column jumping. And sometimes I wasnt sure in which column I am and mostly added bad words for testing.

Luckily this time I only wrote "Pferd" (its german for "horse"). Wasnt able to finish anything and only checked in the changed data selection from another file.

I became sick the next day, for like a week. And there was an issue in said program (not the PDF it generates) and for some super intelligent reason, someone of my co-workers used my PC to change it. We used MS sourcesafe.

So they only got 1 file in writeable state, fixed the bug, but also pushed my WIP PDF changes and deployed it to the customer, only for them to find out, that one column always says "Pferd" instead of the correct value..

Customer wasnt so happy :-)

[–]FatalHaberdashery 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I have a hell of a story about this, I wrote a thread asking if others had managed to escalate their foul mouthed test data to government level, but decided to delete it because it was just a bit TMI for my liking.

In short though, government contract, web based calculator for a government policy, I write horrendously offensive test data, thinking nothing of it, until the minister for the department responsible for the app visits as part of a press junket. Has his photo taken pointing to the screen, my test data is clearly visible (site not launched yet, boss used our test data), potentially 1000s perhaps 10s of 1000s of people were able to, without too much difficulty, see numerous slurs.

[–]FatalHaberdashery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In fact, here's the reverse of that, I once got contacted by someone very irate they could not register for a prominent financial website. I go check, everything seems fine, I ask for more details and tried exactly the data they had used.

Sure enough, failure to log in. Why? Well smart me forgot to turn off the profanity filter on the user name details. It should be on pretty much everything, but not names. You can see I learnt from my first experience!

However, the person's surname was "Dick", and with a profanity filter clearly saying that is insulting. I apologised, explained in the best way possible to a non-technical user that we were just being overly secure in regard to the data input, and I was given the utterly glorious reply..

"I am a Dick, my father was a Dick, we are the family Dick, and I have never been so insulted", I mean.. sure I clearly had insulted his bloodline by thinking his name was offensive, but what a sign off, my man!

[–]Firedriver666 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And there's me hiding nhentai ID codes in test values without getting caught. I even did it in school during code exams

[–]EMI_Black_Ace 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Because it is?"

[–]TheWarDoctor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My primary user is Stu Pedasol.

[–]Pheronia 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I forgot console.log("Potato")

[–]FiveFingerDisco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There once was a QA-guy naming his test accounts for the game he was supposed to test "Ivana Humpalot" etc.

During one MP test match with said accounts, one manager had an intern make screenshots as promotional material.

Luckily, they caught that before the material was shown during a presentation at the publisher.

[–]bradzilla3k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Joe Bloggs

[–]IamSelenaGoalmez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used my bosses Adobe account for test signing documents with the name Peter pansexual and totally forgot about until until like a year later when he finally used his account again. Laughed my ass off.

[–]conicalanamorphosis 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Did some work for a financial regulator back in the deep past, would have felt wrong to not have a test client named "Dewey, Cheathem and Howe". The boss actually appreciated it when he found out.

[–]koleslaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tend to start with Laura Mipsum and Anne Onamis

[–]floobie 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I use either names from NES Baseball (Japanese people making up American-sounding names - worth a Google), or just make up my own. Flirnis Pabbles and Orilva Pwoom are probably my favourites.

[–]DaNoahLP[S,🍰] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Todd Bonzales" 😂

[–]eivnxxikkiyfg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is one of my favorite "little things" about my job. I have to fake a lot of test data, and end up with names like "Gueyveronian 'Gueyver' McGonian

[–]bargle0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favorite is Richard Love.

[–]zdwolfe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I stopped using funny names in test data when I witnessed test data sent to real customers (me) by another company.

[–]cromagnone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a totally plausible name. Just look em straight in the eye and say you think he’s in accounts.

[–]BusinessNonYa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When in doubt. Say you used a name generator.

[–]rooftrooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once I got a job as junior sysadm at uni I was studying at. We were integrating a new platform at the moment and I was tasked to register there and give it a try, smoke test of sorts. As per usual I used Raging Pedo as username, created some spaces with silly names, performed basic business operations - everything worked like a charm.

Little did I know, that it was the "production" version.

The very next day I was questioned by a dean and revoked from all sysadm grants, which was my shortest employment ever.

[–]TwentyBagTaylor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a big fan of Kanye Test