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Not a job, but an internship. It was a startup and the owner was very keenly involved with the development, to the extent that he took daily reports of what was achieved through the day, what was done, what bugs were fixed, what functionality added. Everything we did was supposed to be showed to him to justify that he wasn't wasting the (sub-par) compensation he was offering. I hated the feeling of someone breathing down my neck, judging me by the amount of code I wrote that day (I was team lead). It was all well and fine till the frontend was under development, but then we moved to backend developement. And the thing with backend is, you can't see shit. So, there really wasn't anything to point-and-show every day, except for long PHP scripts that didn't make sense to him. It came to the point that he once said "the work pace had dropped significantly and we weren't moving fast enough". This was when we were actually 5 days ahead of schedule! I literally wanted to stand up and say to him that if he wanted to get it done faster, he should look for someone else. The only thing that held me back was my University's grading system that made it compulsory for students to complete one internship for credits. Glad to be out of that craphole...

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    Damn... 😲
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    Wait, you were paid for your internship? I assume your boss wanted to pay you, right?
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    @mirnapls paid, yes. In full, no. Apparently I took more one or two leaves in 2 months than I was allowed to (in my defense, I had a training that I had signed up for long before this internship). It didn't matter that the website was beta-ready ahead of schedule (not to take undue credit, but the other intern with me on the team did more harm than good. I had to, on many occasions, rewrite his code so it could handle all and not just one situation. And it was just the 2 of us, coz, you know, startup).
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