Whoever Was In The Meeting built a returns authorisation portal

“The budget expires this week.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Petra, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

Teams chat history

Authentication:

the shared account belongs to Miriam, who left 10 months ago

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

Ravi, who inherited it from Petra by accident

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the service account is also a real employee

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 351 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 144 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 732 users, alive 50x longer than intended, the builder has left.