Indeed. It was quite the entry to the company for me as well. "What are you working on?" "Fixing Dave's code." "Good luck."

But my most auspicious entry to a company was where the guy I was replacing had been arrested for stealing data from a competitor. My first two days were spent recovering logs, downloads and other traces of what he had done and handing it over to the lawyers. (the circumstances were not mentioned in the hiring process)