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by suzzer99 1780 days ago
On my first day of my first web-dev job, I went to dinner with the top developers and all they did was tell surreal horror stories about the boss. Women would routinely leave his office crying.

The product we were making was complete BS, and I think the boss was just siphoning off money for himself. All he did was download songs on Napster all day and blare them from his office.

Our top developer was a guy from Australia working under the table because he couldn't get a visa. He missed two days while deathly sick. The boss docked him $800.

There are so many other horror stories. I always compared the guy to a cross between Captain Bligh and Mr. Smith from Lost in Space.