HR built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of Budget2026_new2_final.csv. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Olivier, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a Docker volume called production-final-2 and a prayer

Authentication:

every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Regional Sales Lead, because their name appeared first in the meeting notes

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Budget2026_v2.xlsx.

Age: 5.4 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 1941 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 418 users, €491k per year, alive 279x longer than intended.