Intern John was tasked with updating the company's website. Instead, he managed to break the entire system, causing a 4-hour outage that affected 500 customers. His design choices included using Comic Sans, setting the background to a flashing GIF, and coding in Notepad.
Manager Jane was fired for being "too honest" after she told the CEO that the company was "doomed to fail" in a company-wide email. Her exact words: "We're never going to make it out of Beta, and we're all just winging it until the investors run out of money."
Developer Bob claimed to have "invented" a new programming language, but it turned out to be just a bunch of randomly arranged semicolons. He also used his own brand of "secure" password hashing, which was just his name repeated 100 times.