Facility Services built a training completion tracker

“Sales already promised it.”— Kevin, Facility Services

Reason:

Allegedly because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. Started as Budget2026_final.csv with a script attached.

Built by:

Kevin, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

a URL 65 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Leads_FIXED.csv

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 15 months

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 21% chance of becoming business critical, 1 accidental connections, alive 8x longer than intended.