Episode 2: I Was a Junior Developer and I Must Be Stopped

Welcome back. Last episode, we reviewed a Laravel function that used three loops to reconstruct an array it already had, fired two database queries per item instead of one, and named a variable $r_arr with the confidence of a man who has never once been held accountable for anything. It was a good one, some of us liked it. So today, we are reviewing my hotel invoice generator. It is a PHP class called ExcelController. It imports guest data from an uploaded Excel file and exports a personalised invoice for each guest, packed into a zip file for download. It was never merged. The room numbers are completely random. My senior opened the PR. He read through it. He left seven comments. He never raised his voice. He never sent a follow-up Slack. He just reviewed it with the quiet, deliberate calm of a man who has already accepted his fate and is simply choosing, each day, to keep showing up anyway. Here it is: class ExcelController { public function import(Request $request, ImportedFile $fil