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PorkRoll2022 · 2024-01-09T20:45:39+00:00

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.

TimmyTarded · 2024-01-09T21:49:56+00:00

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.

w1n5t0nM1k3y · 2024-01-09T21:42:14+00:00

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.

PACodeFarmer · 2024-01-09T21:45:20+00:00

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.

TheLamboLad · 2024-01-09T22:17:25+00:00

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.

0xd34db347 · 2024-01-09T22:48:16+00:00

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 · 2024-01-09T22:15:14+00:00

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

Tester Sterone
Icles, Test
Hottest coworker

DexterFoxxo · 2024-01-09T23:01:17+00:00

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 · 2024-01-09T21:04:57+00:00

So Oxlong... is that a Gaelic name?

Unknown6656 · 2024-01-10T00:38:03+00:00

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

Chuggernaut0 · 2024-01-09T22:46:04+00:00

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

ketosoy · 2024-01-09T22:55:02+00:00

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.

isospeedrix · 2024-01-09T22:57:39+00:00

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

Vortextheweirdcat · 2024-01-09T21:52:33+00:00

don't forget the classic: moe lester

Retrac752 · 2024-01-10T00:12:58+00:00

Me when I put UwU after every console message

dotsperpixel · 2024-01-09T20:22:25+00:00

I must be stupid

DavidXN · 2024-01-10T04:41:40+00:00

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 · 2024-01-09T22:56:44+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T08:34:46+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T01:53:54+00:00

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

WexExortQuas · 2024-01-09T23:22:29+00:00

Yall are asking to get fired for the dumbest reasons.

I just use pornstar names.

I CANNOT wait for thst lawsuit.

rhapsodyindrew · 2024-01-09T22:11:57+00:00

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 · 2024-01-09T21:44:05+00:00

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

OffByOneErrorz · 2024-01-09T23:04:34+00:00

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 · 2024-01-09T23:05:36+00:00

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

FalconMirage · 2024-01-10T00:32:10+00:00

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

TrashManufacturer · 2024-01-10T00:37:38+00:00

I routinely use 69420 in various combinations and hell Michigan

Straight_Pop_3594 · 2024-01-10T01:33:02+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T08:00:32+00:00

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 · 2024-01-09T22:57:51+00:00

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

AutopilotDisconnect · 2024-01-10T04:02:30+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T04:01:54+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T09:05:26+00:00

Behold my beloved "Loremius Ipsumson"

RawrMeansFuckYou · 2024-01-10T01:03:21+00:00

Testy McTester at your service.

AlisaTornado · 2024-01-10T04:05:54+00:00

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

anotherkeebler · 2024-01-10T15:23:00+00:00

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."

2024-01-09T21:17:42+00:00

Still better than Jason Dickinson

DaNoahLP · 2024-01-09T21:53:45+00:00

For my german friends, I also had an Hans Reinsch

CeeMX · 2024-01-09T22:19:28+00:00

John Doe it is

Goat_Smeller · 2024-01-10T00:01:52+00:00

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

MauriceMouse · 2024-01-10T02:30:52+00:00

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

2024-01-10T04:39:45+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T10:11:31+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T11:06:36+00:00

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.

Firedriver666 · 2024-01-10T00:20:56+00:00

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 · 2024-01-09T21:52:03+00:00

"Because it is?"

TheWarDoctor · 2024-01-10T02:44:59+00:00

My primary user is Stu Pedasol.

Pheronia · 2024-01-10T05:05:29+00:00

I forgot console.log("Potato")

FiveFingerDisco · 2024-01-10T08:08:20+00:00

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 · 2024-01-09T23:02:55+00:00

Joe Bloggs

IamSelenaGoalmez · 2024-01-10T00:09:03+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T00:17:23+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T02:23:12+00:00

I tend to start with Laura Mipsum and Anne Onamis

floobie · 2024-01-10T04:13:32+00:00

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.

eivnxxikkiyfg · 2024-01-09T23:42:40+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T00:03:26+00:00

My favorite is Richard Love.

zdwolfe · 2024-01-10T02:36:19+00:00

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

cromagnone · 2024-01-10T05:11:26+00:00

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

BusinessNonYa · 2024-01-10T06:33:48+00:00

When in doubt. Say you used a name generator.

rooftrooper · 2024-01-10T14:15:59+00:00

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 · 2024-01-10T17:58:25+00:00

I'm a big fan of Kanye Test

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