Facilities built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“The password is really long.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the integration works unless it is Friday. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Bastian, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a nightly CSV export emailed to Sofia

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named temp-2

Responsible:

Anja, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 6 times

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Age: 9.0 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 470x longer than intended, €77k per year, older than the department using it.