So many times in my career I have seen a problem that could be handled with two lines of code and a table lookup being handled with 40 lines of code and a switc

So many times in my career I have seen a problem that could be handled with two lines of code and a table lookup being handled with 40 lines of code and a switch statement. So the guy writing the 40 lines of codes switch statement would get paid 20 times more money!