CEO Office built an org chart nobody updates

“It's only metadata.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the temporary solution has survived 7 managers. Built in a long Thursday and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Marco, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a Docker volume called new-backup and a prayer

Authentication:

the API accepts requests from anywhere with confidence

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 18 months ago

Documentation:

comments that say "do not change this"

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 14:12, nightly

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €108k per year, 43 users, alive 6x longer than intended.