Or maybe it is the best opportunity ever to really make a difference, depends how you frame it.
Often companies respond very poorly to predicted failure (or success) and need to see these scenarios demonstrated.
Rather than wait for failure, or just disappear, can you take a piece of code, refactor it, have tests for it, explain what you did and why, along with how a company coding standard could allow painless transformation incrementally across the entire codebase improving maintainability for the future?