"We could do it in a easy two liners that make sense, but, and hear me out here, what if we instead built an entire 10k LOC system that would barely work half o

"We could do it in a easy two liners that make sense, but, and hear me out here, what if we instead built an entire 10k LOC system that would barely work half of the time, using dozens of man hours for it ? And then never re-use it nor train anyone about it so that it becomes a mythical black box after your contract expires ?" "Well, I gave you my recommendation but hey at the end of the day you're the customer and I'm paid by the hour, so whatever you say boss" I now consider myself very lucky to be successful enough to not have to deal with projects like that, but back when I wasn't I paid quite a few things I wanted with those sort of stupid decisions.