Developers Anonymous

Man o' MAN! This topic title is not to be taken 100% serious. Its figurative, before someone nails me from above!!!

I'm busy with project very quickly nearly its completion date. Like a good little developer, I'm about 1 day ahead of schedule. Another app of ours needed to be fixed ASAP and who gets it? The guy who knows nothing about this app. Not only does this app make use of Oracle (Which I've used before yesterday) but I understand nothing of the Business logic!

I told my manager, "Thanks for the trust and confidence but its dangerous because I'm not sure A) Whats actually wrong and B) Whats going on in the code"! To cut a very long story short I managed fix a problem but not the other 4! No worries though, the responsible kiddie came back to fix it up the following day (this morning).

Point is, does everyone else also have this? Are you working on a project minding your own business then suddenly, WHAM! You stuck with someone else's problem that they can't come fix because they are "too sick to work"?