The Management Assistant built a training completion tracker

“It's only temporary.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Allegedly because copy of copy of Budget2026_FIXED_final_FINAL.xlsx finally crashed at 09:22. With 163 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Chen, a field technician

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a Google Sheet with 191,089 rows and 35 tabs

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

last deployed 141 days ago

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in December

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Suppliers_new2.xlsm.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 34 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €161k per year, the builder has left, 1 departments depend on it.