>>Often times when I make a code change to a program it takes me longer to go thru the approval process to release it to production than it did to do the code change in the first place lol.

I think I saw the record set for that one.
Back in the JCL days, I was working on a project for one of the world's largest banks, headquartered in NYC.
While debugging an existing issue we discovered that one column in a JCL card had a punch in it that shouldn't have been there.
The fix was to reproduce that card without that punch- no compiling, etc.- just reproduce the card, get rid of the old one and put the new card in the deck- about a 5 minute task.

With all the approvals, audits, etc. it was more than a month before that new card went into that deck.