Procurement built a commission calculator with a rounding bug

“It has a login screen.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Started as Headcount_final_FINAL.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Miriam, a recruiter

Build time:

2 hours 22 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard

Authentication:

the security model is "Google probably handles that"

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 25 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 25 days ago · original builder left 31 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, nobody owns it, the builder has left.