Marketing built a KPI wall for a screen nobody looks at

“Microsoft probably handles that.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Honestly? Because Salesforce needs 37 clicks and two approvals to correct a typo in an address. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Priya, a field technician

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

the firewall rule says "temporary"

Deployment:

running in a region 6 time zones away from its users

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

It will become business critical in 10 months.

Age: 4.3 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 223x longer than intended, €58k per year, 1 accidental connections.