Although someone else already commented that he's a contractor and not an employee, I still wanted to explain this a bit more. To me, the most outrageous part

Although someone else already commented that he's a contractor and not an employee, I still wanted to explain this a bit more. To me, the most outrageous part was this: > The cherry on top of this disastrous situation was that throughout the entire process I only heard good things from my manager. In total I had 3 1-on-1's with him, and even though we discussed the situation and what was wrong multiple times, he never, for one moment, gave me the impression that my job could be in jeopardy. A few weeks later I was fired. I'm not a lawyer, but there's no way that would be acceptable under Dutch law (if he was an employee). You can definitely fire someone if hey are not performing. But you'd at least need to warn them about their performance, and allow them time to improve.