Marcus,
I actually have a credit story that may help you feel better. Years ago I did the audio post for a low budget independent action feature. I did ALL of the sound work even some of the recording of the dialog on set. And there wasn't much dialog either. Most of the film was gun battles, car chases, jousting, more gun battles, musket battles, more gun battles, and general running around - all shot MOS. I did lots and lots of foley and used every trick in the book and some that weren't to keep the sound exciting like an action movie is supposed to be. And it was sci-fi too so a lot of the sound work had to be invented and recorded, all by ME in my personal studio.
The movie wasn't that great but I was quite proud of my contribution. It improved the film quite a bit. The producer called it "The $150,000 movie with the 1 million dollar soundtrack."
When the movie came out my credit was listed as "Sound Designer" which is as good a credit as any I suppose. But, below my name were listed nineteen FICTIONAL PEOPLE for various audio post positions. They obviously did absolutely nothing, being fictional and all. I did that work by myself but the producer wanted to make the movie look like a bigger production so he padded the credits.
...and that's the way it was.
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