I sympathise with how you're feeling super wronged. I think it takes a special level of "pissed" to post something like this out there with your name on it. Bu

I sympathise with how you're feeling super wronged. I think it takes a special level of "pissed" to post something like this out there with your name on it. But my 2 cents if you're interested. No one is going to care. The company that you're angry with, least of all. They will just try to screw you with legal action. They will likely succeed considering you are an individual and they likely have a big legal warchest to punch you with. Developers will continue working for them, customers will continue giving them money - but the same can't be said about you or your small consulting firm until this blows over - if ever. Take the perspective of the company and their clients, bitter as it may be. You just look like someone who didn't deliver and are now making lots of excuses and raising a hullabaloo on the internet. Try to make a settlement with them and get this thing buried forever. You have a very strong emotional connection to your work - you love writing code! This is great. Just applied in the wrong place. Contracting isn't for you my friend, it doesn't always engender itself to this kind of emotion and you have to be able to live with that. Your options are: 1. Become less attached to your work code. Do what you are being asked to do, no more and not less - and never set the criteria yourself. Work on other stuff. 2. Go work for a startup (or start one) where your emotional connection to doing high quality work (per your perception of quality - unit tests are no guarantee) - is highly valued. Most important of all, like everyone else is saying - please take a break.