Logistics built a price list with its own opinions

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €8,600. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Jens, someone from Procurement

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

one table called data

Authentication:

backups are encrypted with the same password as production

Deployment:

last successfully deployed 34 days ago

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

the app is secure because the browser shows a padlock

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 2.9 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 150x longer than intended, €59k per year, 2 departments depend on it.