Facility Services built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

“We have a diagram.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Because the intranet is only reachable on the VPN, which drops every 43 minutes. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Jens, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

Supabase on a free tier that pauses in 17 days

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Headcount_new.xlsx to Bastian

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a Slack thread from July

Security situation:

the security exception expires every year and is renewed every year

Future disaster:

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

Age: 4.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners 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.