An intern built an employee offboarding checklist

“We only need it until the new ERP goes live.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Officially because the dropdown contains 242 options. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Anja, someone from Procurement

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

a webhook pointed at someone's ngrok tunnel

Database:

the legacy system's database through a read-only user with write permissions

Authentication:

TLS is enabled, certificate warnings are ignored

Deployment:

restarted manually every Sunday

Responsible:

Ravi, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a README last updated 623 days ago

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 3.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 91x longer than intended, 5 users, €4k per year.