After college, I'd applied across the boards for a job, any job, just needed money to pay off my student loans. Got a job as a programmer for $10 an hour in VB6

After college, I'd applied across the boards for a job, any job, just needed money to pay off my student loans. Got a job as a programmer for $10 an hour in VB6 to fix and update software. Everything was going well, and even got a $2 promotion after training was complete. Soon it all became clear that the micromanaging from the boss, constant looking over my shoulder, arrogance in meetings and treating me like I was stupid because my boss was the one who came up with the software idea and I was too stupid to contribute anything new to it... after a year and a half of making updates and changes to the program and growing the platform. It wasn't the worst job and it taught me a lot about programming. Although my tyrant boss sucked, he had some heart to occasionally invite me out to lunch and even gave me side jobs to do for his friends, which I charged accordingly. But I think I'd just grown tired of his arrogance and annoyances. It was great when he wasn't at the office, but he was there more often than not. I decided I'd just start looking for another job. With the behavior of the boss, I was just tired of the bullshit, and also wanted more money. I knew that he wasn't going to give me any more money than the $12 an hour so I'd just get another job. And that I did -- he offered me double my salary. I took it along with the other job. The condition: I'd work the other job and come and work there at night for about 2-4 hours at $24 an hour. The "that's it, I'm leaving" moment was when I started and about 2-3 days later, he called me into his office. The senior programmer was there as well. He asked me, "What did you do here the past 2 or 3 nights?" My response: "The job you are paying me to do." Him: "Well, I had the senior developer go through your browser history, and it looks like you come here just to play around while I pay you." hands me a printout of all the websites visited What did I see? It was all the songs from a YouTube playlist I was listening to.. apparently recorded as if I was visiting them, despite having it on autoplay. I told him that I had, in fact, done work, showed him, and told him that would be the end of our contract, to pay me what I was owed, and that I was done. I explained what all the YouTube videos were -- a playlist of songs I listen to while I'm working to help me focus on work. He soon apologized but by then, "that's it, I'm leaving." Totally get how an employer can go into your account and look through your history but questioning me on a bunch of YouTube videos that were actually just music... yeah, I was good on that one. It did take me about 3 more years to get back to the salary I was making working for him, but it wasn't worth the bullshit i would've gone through had I stayed. He eventually sold the software I had worked on to another company and they destroyed it, as he was their sole competition.