Reception built a rota planner

“It's just a cron job.”— Anja, Reception

Reason:

Honestly? Because the dashboard is updated manually every Friday. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Anja, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

SharePoint lists pretending to be an application

Database:

one table called everything

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2025

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 7 minutes

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 88 days ago

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Anja, who built it

Future disaster:

It will stop working after someone renames a column.

Age: 17 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 17 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 23% chance of becoming business critical, 6 users.