I did it plenty when I was working as part of a contracting house where “every hour is billed to a client”. There’s plenty of room to spend time making crazy to

I did it plenty when I was working as part of a contracting house where “every hour is billed to a client”. There’s plenty of room to spend time making crazy tools to automate your work or provide internal/external/personal value. Sometimes these rogue gambits pay off and return multiples of value…sometimes they just waste massive time. But I can say that I was absolutely a rogue project-doer in an engineering body shop.