I have plenty of terrible stories from working for a salesman turned CEO but who has the time? Besides, you asked what still made me angry, so here it is.

Monday morning I come in to find the CEO already at his desk (highly unusual even though it was already 8) and immediately he wants me in his office. Not a good sign. He's totally furious. Face red. Smoke from his ears. I'm the worst developer ever. Why can't I be trusted? Do I have any idea how much business I cost him? Oh yeah, he hasn't even told me what the problem is yet.

It's an ecommerce company and our sites have been down since sometime Sunday morning. By down I mean totally unusable. Not one order.

After I'm out of the wringer I go back to my office to track down the problem. It's easy. Some code libraries are missing from the server. A one minute fix. Let's look at the logs. A quick call to our ISP confirms that their CEO deleted them because he didn't know what they were for.

The ISP was a small (shitty) company. Our CEO threw them a bone (our business) because their CEO helped him out (once). They built/configure/maintain our server for a ridiculous monthly fee.

a.) Why is the ISP deleting files on our box?

b.) A one minute call prior to deletion would've saved us a lot of mess.

c.) Our agreement says they monitor our sites 24/7 so how could it stay down for almost a full day without them knowing?

All these questions pop into head about the same time. I'm in his office when their CEO tells my boss that he deleted the files. I actually saw a look of disappointment wash over his face as he (now) meakly tells them how much money he thinks he lost.

That was it. Not another word about it. Not even an apology. Like I said, that's just *one* story. I couldn't take it anymore and I've moved on. To the best of my knowledge, they're still using the same ISP.