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Boss is also a programmer which is nice. boss is also incredibly impatient. so when he gives me a project to do, when I don't have it done the day of, he goes and does it over the weekend. but he doesn't tell until a few days later when I finish the following Tuesday. he chucked my git branch and just pushed his stuff to master. then he belittled me because there was a feature missing in his code and I hadn't done it yet. I don't know how to deal with this. on the one hand, I could try and work faster. but on the other, I am trying to add features to software he wrote in c-style c++, didn't comment, and hasn't been updated to modern standards since 1998. even the copyright files are 1997 to 2001. just very discouraged as its my first job in the field. it wouldn't have been so frustrating if he had just told me he'd worked on it himself instead of letting me finish it and then throwing it in the trash.

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    Sad story bro
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    Take care bro
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    I worked with guys like that before, can be really frustrating and quite frankly, your boss is a dick.
    You need to tell him. If he doesn't act on that, I suggest finding a nicer work environment.

    Good luck
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    @yarwest well, from listening to coworkers who've been here longer, he's always been like that. but since I'm the only programmer, I work literally directly under him and he's the CEO.

    I've started looking for other jobs anyway. I really liked this place to but that just really bugged me. now, sure his code was better then mine. he's been programming as long as I've been alive and knows his own software better then me. but if he isn't going to trust me to implement features then why hire me.
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    @winterTheMute yeah I know the feel :/ good luck either way (and welcome to the community btw!)
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    that sucks man. that is not a healthy work environment.
  • 2
    Nothing worse than an old C know it all that knows nothing else.
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