R&D built a PTO approval app

“The data isn't that sensitive.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because Headcount_final_FINAL_old.xlsm finally crashed at 08:58. Forked from a tutorial at 11:56 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Daniel, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

Firebase with the admin SDK key committed to Git

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 11 days

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

"the team", which is Daniel

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

IT has not been informed and will not be

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 5.9 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 36x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 departments depend on it.