An intern built a sales dashboard nobody asked for

“It's basically done.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because the form takes 28 minutes to complete and times out after 9. With 72 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Katrin, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

Firebase with the admin SDK key committed to Git

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

running with 78% memory usage and "seems fine"

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 42 comments

Security situation:

backups use the same password as production

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 5.5 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1125 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 57% chance of becoming business critical, alive 96x longer than intended, 3 departments depend on it.