A company I worked with (hence AC) had a software engineer who died unexpectedly on holiday, she must have been only around 50 and no signs of ill health so a real shock to all of us.
However, said company decided to wipe and re-purpose her PC shortly after. About 6 months later I got a request if I had any information on some software, eh?! Turns out she had made changes and built/deployed the new version that fixed some things but the changes were only checked in to the local disk, not the central source management system.
Had they only put in a new HDD to re-use that PC!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
