HR built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“We'll add tests later.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Because Friday at 09:45 seemed like a reasonable time to deploy. With a logo generated at 16:12.

Built by:

Tobias, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an in-memory dictionary. Restarts are exciting.

Authentication:

the reset password button emails the old password back

Deployment:

running on a server last patched 88 days ago

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €83,000 per month.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 8x longer than intended, 8 users.