Perhaps not, but maybe “zemblanity”, a word I found by searching “serendipity but bad”:
Zemblanity is the opposite of serendipity, meaning that it is an unlucky or unwanted, but predictable, event. Although it might be difficult to imagine someone behaving in a manner that could be predicted to cause harm, zemblanity can occur as a result of complex human and organizational factors.
Per ness labs, which the only context I have for it is that it isn’t a dictionary.
I tend to think of looking into the typical awful.systems topic areas as sewer diving
In that sense, as with sewer diving, there’s a sweet spot of anosmia.
I don’t think there’s an elegant Greek-derived word for “hey, look at what I just stepped in”
Perhaps not, but maybe “zemblanity”, a word I found by searching “serendipity but bad”:
Per ness labs, which the only context I have for it is that it isn’t a dictionary.
excuse me good sir, that’s under the department of societal maintenance
(no I don’t really think that pompously of it but at least the tracking and awareness side of it is not all that far removed either)