[fooqux]

My developer environment at work has a password that is synced across multiple services.

Ran into a problem a few months ago where I changed my password successfully on the front-end, but one-or-many backend syncing operations mangled the new password by dropping the last n characters on the floor. So when I logged into the front end, it would look like everything was fine until I tried to perform some kind of operation. At which point it promptly threw up all over itself.

Left me in a completely non-working state for a few days. Didn't help that I'm basically the only admin for said system.

[sirclueless]

Non-responsive superiors are a great excuse in business. Stuff can get "stuck" for quite a while if you have enough bureaucratic obfuscation to justify it. When the buck starts and stops in the same place you have nowhere to turn.