CEO's Daughter built a training completion tracker

“The code is self-documenting.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Honestly? Because the automation sends an email asking someone to do it manually. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Kevin, an intern

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a database view called temp_FINAL_FINAL

Authentication:

there is one account called "user"

Deployment:

last deployed 88 days ago

Responsible:

Petra, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Elena, who left

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Kevin, who built it

Future disaster:

It will send 118,027 duplicate emails.

Age: 173 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 166 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, alive 8x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.