Logistics built an internal job board with two jobs

“We only need it until the consultant comes back.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the budget expires on Friday. With 116 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Lukas, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

SAP, indirectly, through 9 CSV exports

Authentication:

everyone uses the admin account

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

Chen, according to Jira

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Slack message

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 6% of records.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 247 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, alive 27x longer than intended, the builder has left.