Dog Shelter Team built a barcode scanner that only works on one phone

“It has a login screen.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the time tracking system needs 11 clicks and two approvals to tell someone they are on holiday. Built in a long Thursday and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Ravi, a field technician

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

Chen's laptop, technically

Authentication:

rate limiting is "please don't"

Deployment:

restarted manually every Friday

Responsible:

Jens, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

the database is reachable from the public internet

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 26x longer than intended, it is load bearing.