Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it

ON CALL Making it through a working week can feel like a dangerous adventure. That's why The Register offers a little certainty and safety by always using Friday morning to share a new edition of On Call – the reader-contributed column sharing your tales of tech support. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Socrates," who many years ago was the "fresh-faced manager of a small software department." Socrates' employer had sold some monitoring hardware to a client that made equipment f