I disagree with this. Management doesn't need to micro-manage everything, that's certainly not their job role. This was a simple change in an internal system. Y

I disagree with this. Management doesn't need to micro-manage everything, that's certainly not their job role. This was a simple change in an internal system. Yes, maybe this minor super isolated change could have broken something in some parallel world, but the stuff it would have broken is not an airplane computer or a heart machine. Bloody hell, sometimes it is important to put things into context. Engineers get paid a hell lot of money and you would expect that someone with that qualification and level of experience would be capable to make smart decisions independently without being micro-managed by a manager all the time. After all the engineer is the real expert of his/her code and can make a much better assessment of the impact of the change than the manager, so freaking do it! That's what you get paid for! Seriously, there was no excuse for this to take 6 days.