My mgr called and asked me to script up something ..
.. that would do a certain operation within a certain scope.
I inherited a half-complete script that somebody had worked on for several weeks, it looked super complicated and were nested in ab surdum.
A few lines of code, 19 lines including comments, in under an hour. My variation of the does everything the original script does, but simpler and with less complexity.
I ran tests and tweaked it a little, to meet the requirements and to make it simple to maintain.
Mgr asked me to hold it for a bit, to not cast shadows on the original author, but were happy I did it in such a short time, it's going to be put into production this evening.
The PL is going to be very happy since this apparently has been dragging on for a few months and the PL has promised a solution to be deployed since the summer.