Facilities built an org chart nobody updates

“It's only employee data.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Honestly? Because the approval requires 2 people for a €249 purchase. Started as Customers_old_final.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Lukas, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

RabbitMQ with 749 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

the password hint contains the password

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Miriam's laptop

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 6 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the security exception expires every year and is renewed every year

Future disaster:

It will accidentally CC 91 people.

Age: 206 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 10x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it, 1 users.