It was working in my head Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel? Oh, you said you DIDN'T want that to happen? THIS can't be the source of THAT I thought he knew the context of what I was talking about I can have a look but there's a lot of if statements in that code! It works, but it's not been tested The accounting department must have cancelled that subscription The marketing department made us put that there I couldn't find any examples of how that can be done anywhere else in the project Oh, that was only supposed to be a placeholder That's not a bug it's a configuration issue It must be because of a leap second I'm not getting any error codes It's just some unlucky coincidence I haven't been able to reproduce that I forgot to commit the code that fixes that It would have taken twice as long to build it properly What did I tell you about using parts of the system you don't understand? I didn't create that part of the program I must have been stress testing our production server Our hardware is too slow to cope with demand I thought I finished that The original specification contained conflicting requirements That isn't covered by my job description There was too little data to bother with the extra functionality at the time Maybe somebody forgot to pay our hosting company That wouldn't be economically feasible I didn't anticipate that I would make any errors Well, at least it displays a very pretty error It's never done that before I thought I fixed that You're doing it wrong It's not a code problem - our users need more training Our code quality is no worse than anyone else in the industry Well done, you found my easter egg! It's a third party application issue I can't test everything I'm not familiar with it so I didn't fix it in case I made it worse There were too many developers working on that same thing I can't make that a priority right now That feature would be outside of the scope I haven't had any experience with that before I have never seen that before in my life Why do you want to do it that way? It's never shown unexpected behaviour like this before That important email must have been marked as spam There's currently a problem with our hosting company It would take too long to rewrite the code from scratch I'm surprised that was working at all The specifications were ambiguous I have too many other high priority things to do right now I thought you signed off on that? You must have the wrong version How is that possible? Did you check for a virus on your system? The existing design makes it difficult to do the right thing I had to do the project backwards as people demanded results out of order The request must have dropped some packets That was literally a one in a million error I'll have to fix that at a later date We spent three months debugging it because we only had one month to build it That behaviour is in the original specification It worked yesterday The user must not know how to use it Don't worry, that value is only wrong half of the time It's a known bug with the server software Well at least we know not to try that again The program has never collected that information In the interest of efficiency I only check my email for that on a Friday The third party API is not responding My time was split in a way that meant I couldn't do either project properly That worked perfectly when I developed it The third party documentation is wrong This is a previously known bug you told me not to work on yet Nobody asked me how long it would actually take That code was written by the last guy I heard there was a solar flare today You must be missing some of the dependencies I haven't touched that code in weeks It's a known bug with the programming language Our internet connection must not be working The WYSIWYG must have produced an invalid output It must be a firewall issue Well, that's a first I did a quick fix last time but it broke when we rebooted It must be because of a leap year The problem seems to be with our legacy software The third party documentation doesn't exist It can't be broken, it passes all unit tests I told you yesterday it would be done by the end of today The client wanted it changed at the last minute We didn't have enough time to peer review the final changes The project manager said no one would want that feature I usually get a notification when that happens You can't use that version on your system I was just fixing that It's always been like that It's a remote vendor issue I'm surprised it works as well as it does This code was not supposed to go in to production yet I haven't had the chance to run that code yet Your browser must be caching the old content Everything looks fine my end It's a browser compatibility issue It works for me I broke that deliberately to do some testing That feature was slated for phase two Actually, that's a feature Oh, that was just a temporary fix That code seemed so simple I didn't think it needed testing You must have done something wrong There must be something strange in your data The unit test doesn't cover that eventuality The client must have been hacked It's a character encoding issue The project manager told me to do it that way It must be a hardware problem That process requires human oversight that nobody was providing I was told to stop working on that when something important came up I couldn't find any examples of how that can be done anywhere online I couldn't find any library that can even do that Management insisted we wouldn't need to waste our time writing unit tests I must not have understood what you were asking for It probably won't happen again It's an unexpected emergent behaviour of several last minute abstractions Somebody must have changed my code The code is compiling That's already fixed it just hasn't taken effect yet We outsourced that months ago That wasn't in the original specification That's the fault of the graphic designer That's interesting, how did you manage to make it do that? That error means it was successful I'm not sure as I've never had a look at how that works before I'm still working on that as we speak Where were you when the program blew up? Our redundant systems must have failed as well The download must have been corrupted No one told me so I was forced to assume which way to do that The person responsible doesn't work here anymore I didn't receive a ticket for it What did you type in wrong to get it to crash? We should have updated our software years ago Nobody has ever complained about it