Ha! My favorite Telco story was when I was hired to come in and do performance improvements on an enterprise application. Day 1 I figured out what the problem

Ha! My favorite Telco story was when I was hired to come in and do performance improvements on an enterprise application. Day 1 I figured out what the problem was, and I could have the solution in place by the end of the day. The manager who was in charge of the application thought that a quick solution would make him look bad. I was explicitly ordered to sit on my thumbs for six weeks. The thing is, once you know the solution every other action is senseless. There are people who are perfectly happy being a billable body for a living. I'm not one of them.