Finance built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

“It's just a webhook.”— Ravi, Finance

Reason:

Officially because the shared password was last changed 411 days ago. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Ravi, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an FTP server containing folders called NEW, NEW2 and FINAL

Authentication:

rate limiting is "please don't"

Deployment:

hosted on Nadia's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Kevin, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Budget2026_final.xlsx.

Age: 3.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 1006 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, alive 90x longer than intended, the builder has left.