The Orphaned ID Bug from My First Job (And What It Taught Me About Being a Junior Dev)

About two weeks into my first web-dev job, I had a Trello card that said the LMS was sometimes leaving orphaned IDs behind when assigned trainings were finished or deleted. The app was a corporate LMS for a global manufacturer that made machine protection, chip and coolant management systems, and facility safety products. This was not a small internal team tool. It was the training system for the whole company, and they wanted every training assignment for anyone to go through this broken LMS. T