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

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because the licence costs €2,400 per year, per seat. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Priya, a recruiter

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a Google Sheet with 66,649 rows and 21 tabs

Authentication:

an API key in the frontend bundle

Deployment:

last deployed 34 days ago

Responsible:

"the team", which is Priya

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.

Future disaster:

It will outlive two reorganisations.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 511 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.2m per year, 2 departments depend on it, alive 17x longer than intended.