Sustainability built a training request portal

“We'll tell Legal if anyone asks.”— Nadia, Sustainability

Reason:

Honestly? Because the bug is now documented behaviour. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Nadia, an analyst

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

money stored as FLOAT

Authentication:

the certificate expired 411 days ago

Deployment:

running on a VM with 4 GB of free disk space

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 9% of records.

Age: 26 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 26 days ago · original builder left 60 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, the builder has left, 1 accidental connections.