The Management Assistant built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“It's behind the VPN.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the budget appeared unexpectedly on Friday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Marco, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

RabbitMQ with 126 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

MFA exists, but everyone clicked "remember this device forever"

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

nobody officially, Ravi emotionally

Documentation:

a Word document called Budget2026_new2.xlsx

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Customers_old.csv.

Age: 124 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 53 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 34% chance of becoming business critical, 3 departments depend on it.