HR built a fleet mileage tracker

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Chen, HR

Reason:

Allegedly because the ticket has been open for 823 days. Forked from a tutorial at 09:48 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Chen, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a Google Sheet with 208,689 rows and 63 tabs

Authentication:

SSO, but only for Sofia

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2023

Responsible:

"the team", which is Chen

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €551k per year, 75% chance of becoming business critical, 170 users.