- Micromanaging PM and other devs trying to appease him. I hate staring at IDE and most of the time I am "procrastinating" while thinking about code. Then once

- Micromanaging PM and other devs trying to appease him. I hate staring at IDE and most of the time I am "procrastinating" while thinking about code. Then once I have a concept of what to do, I type it in run tests etc. so I know that to someone I could look like slacking whole day. So every time I had Reddit or Hacker News open one of the devs sitting nearby would take a note and then report to the PM. At the end of the week, the PM asked me to come and "have a chat". He asked me if I have a problem and that he is concerned that I am not working. I said I am fine and asked why would he think that? He said that our team mates complained to him numerous times that I spend the day looking at funny pictures instead of coding and that is unfair for the team. They feel like they are doing all the work while I am taking the p*s. I asked him if I have delivered everything they needed on time? He confirmed that my delivery is on point. I asked then, do I get fewer tasks to do than other team members? He said no. I told him that maybe he should talk to other team members and ask them to focus on their work rather than snooping around? He didn't say anything, so I said I think the meeting is over then. I had a good relationship with the CTO and mentioned to him what happened. He sacked the PM next week and the developer he said he was snooping. If the CTO wouldn't have sacked them, I would have left, because the atmosphere wasn't great after that meeting. - I took a job at a start up for a slightly lower salary than a market rate, because they were doing stuff I was hoping to improve on and they offered shares in the company as a part of package (which if added the value to the salary, it would actually be very nice). The work was great, but month after month there was always an issue with sorting out the shares (government's EMI scheme). 18 months later I felt that they started recycling old excuses and company was growing rapidly, so I had this feeling that they just found a fool and are playing games. After yet another excuse I handed in my notice. I don't regret it, because I quickly found much much better paying gig, where my gained experience was very useful.