The Person Who Knows SQL built an employee offboarding checklist

“We'll clean it up after the audit.”— Jens, The Person Who Knows SQL

Reason:

Because nobody had tested it on an iPad. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Jens, a controller

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a backup strategy consisting of Priya copying the folder on Fridays

Authentication:

passwords are stored in plaintext, for troubleshooting

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Sarah's laptop

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 47 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 47 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 396 users, 10% chance of becoming business critical, alive 2x longer than intended.