I had the "pleasure" of working on a system that made recursive calls that made other recursive calls that made other recursive calls, which made recursive call

I had the "pleasure" of working on a system that made recursive calls that made other recursive calls that made other recursive calls, which made recursive calls to the database. I'd helped design it originally but this was not at all what I intended. I had a medical emergency though that knocked me out of work for quite a while and when I got back this unreasonable thing was what they had built.