Sales built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the mandatory field is documented as optional. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Bastian, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

145,255 XML files

Authentication:

the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

Kevin, according to nobody except Ravi

Documentation:

a Word document called Headcount_backup_backup.xlsx

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will become impossible to shut down because 15 other tools depend on it.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 36 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 4 accidental connections, direct production access, nobody owns it.