IT (yes, really) built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because the printer is somehow involved. With a logo generated at 17:58.

Built by:

Nadia, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

one table with 111 columns

Authentication:

TLS is enabled, certificate warnings are ignored

Deployment:

deployed every time Chen remembers

Responsible:

Sarah, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 14 months old

Future disaster:

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

Age: 34 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €372k per year, direct production access, 2 departments depend on it.