Facilities built an on-call rota in a shared doc with a UI

“It's only employee data.”— Priya, Facilities

Reason:

Allegedly because someone said "just add AI". With 64 users and 57 feature requests.

Built by:

Priya, a recruiter

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

the incident response plan is "call personName"

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a 52 minute screen recording

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will stop working after someone renames a column.

Age: 5.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 263x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 users.