My brother worked for DEC way back in the day, and he told me how someone had buried some witticism in the code for a situation they never thought would happen.
It was a very big client so there were people in suits clustered around watching, and when they were troubleshooting the system, it took them down various paths trying to rebuild the stored data, and on the last attempt at using some obscure utility, the programmer had put in the response they saw when it failed and the terminal responded:
“System go bye-bye.”
He said they tracked down the person who had written that code and fired him.
Gulp.
Fired the guy? DEC is no longer with us. That kind of attitude may have had something to do with it.