Strategy built a fridge cleaning rota

“We'll put it on the roadmap.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because Finance has a different spreadsheet. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Petra, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

RabbitMQ with 143 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

the shared account belongs to Daniel, who left 4 months ago

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 3 times.

Age: 343 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 343 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, €291k per year, 37 users.