Freelance worker fired after asking to be paid for extra work: 'I got a termination email claiming disrespectful conduct'

Freelance workers deserve better. Despite not being salaried and not having benefits, most of these workers are forced to deal with a nebulous set of expectations that can at times be more intrusive. For instance, freelance workers may not have a set number of hours, but that does not mean that they have to be subjected to constant emails, calls, and texts from their supervisors during off hours. For some reason, the work-life boundaries for freelance workers always seem to be more nonexistent than those for full-time salaried employees.

Here, we have a contracted worker whose supervisor moved to Europe after having a tough relationship with U.S. work culture. Unfortunately, it turns that you can take the American out of American work culture but you can't take American work culture out of the American. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about an employee who sent the wrong message to his boss.