Whoever Had Admin Rights built a coffee consumption dashboard

“Management asked for it.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because somebody watched a 12 minute tutorial. Built in 5 hours 31 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Olivier, a team lead

Build time:

2 hours 8 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a Raspberry Pi with 6 years of production data

Authentication:

logging out just hides the menu

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

nobody officially, Olivier emotionally

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT must stop.

Age: 5.3 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 596 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €570k per year, nobody owns it, alive 21x longer than intended.