The New Guy built a rota planner

“It's more of a proof of concept.”— Olivier, The New Guy

Reason:

Mainly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 11 months. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Olivier, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Bootstrap 3 and a dream

Database:

a GitHub Gist that became business critical

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 3 months

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

Group Controller, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2025 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Petra's credit card expires.

Age: 192 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 192 days ago · original builder left 143 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 120 users, 2 accidental connections, the builder has left.