I worked at a place where a site had to show the number of members, but for some reason it didn't show the correct number. The reason was the query to the database was wrong, I corrected it in five minutes and the boss told me to put numbers manually, increasing them until we could display the correct query result because apparently the problem was there a long time before I started working there and it would make a bad image for the company if it was so easily corrected.

On other project a friend of mine told me about things were so slow and getting slower with time. Database didn't have keys, indexes, nothing you should expect a relational database to have.

I haven't worked in a while because of my health issues and I can assure you I'd be happier getting paid for watering plants than working with computers.