A Former Employee built a cost allocation model

“It's only one container.”— Chen, A Former Employee

Reason:

Mainly because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Plant Manager. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Chen, a controller

Build time:

2 hours 4 minutes

Built with:

Laravel, maintained by one contractor

Database:

a Google Sheet with an Apps Script nobody remembers writing

Authentication:

the secret is in Git history, so deleting it felt pointless

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €80.30/month

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €1243/day through a third party

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 4 minutes to load

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will acquire its own workaround.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 99% chance of becoming business critical, 5 accidental connections, alive 69x longer than intended.