Right. There's one developer at Skype who can just do that and push it to production, without talking to anyone else, or getting approval from anyone else.
Be realistic. If two people need to talk about it, it's going to take longer than 2 minutes.
Given your description I'm sure I'm lucky I'm not familiar with that. I've never worked at any place that has > 40 employees. If I can manage, I hope never to have to.
Yeah, there's no doubt it sucks but so can working for smaller organisations. It's all about the people your working with. The bigger the company, the more deadwood you likely have to work with.
Be realistic. If two people need to talk about it, it's going to take longer than 2 minutes.