Quality Assurance built an internal job board with two jobs

“We'll put it on the roadmap.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Marketing Manager. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 141 days ago.

Built by:

Nadia, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

an audit table that nobody has ever queried

Authentication:

the password is the company name backwards

Deployment:

running on port 5000 in production

Responsible:

"the team", which is Nadia

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Lukas.

Age: 223 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 223 days ago · original builder left 105 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €162k per year, alive 32x longer than intended, the builder has left.