Someone From Head Office built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“It's not customer-facing.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of Invoices_Q3_use-this-one.xlsm. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Tobias, a recruiter

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a database dump from June that is "probably current enough"

Authentication:

permissions are managed by copying another user's account

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Tobias, who left 2 months ago

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 16:34, nightly

Future disaster:

It will stop working the day the free tier ends.

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 848 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 35 users, the builder has left, alive 16x longer than intended.