IT (yes, really) built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 88 days. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Kevin, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

an SQLite file called app_final_2.db

Authentication:

permissions are managed by copying another user's account

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Priya, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a Miro board with 92 sticky notes

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2029.

Age: 18 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 18 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 6 departments depend on it, 34 users, €13k per year.