Quality Assurance built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“You need to know the exact link.”— Priya, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Honestly? Because the mandatory field is documented as optional. Already exported 40,938 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Priya, someone from Procurement

Build time:

5 hours 28 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

an audit table that nobody has ever queried

Authentication:

the second factor is knowing which door the server room is behind

Deployment:

running from a zip file called copy of copy of Leads.xlsx

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in December

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the API key is shared by 10 applications

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 263 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 192 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, alive 38x longer than intended, the builder has left.