We are not- fired usually though. Ones contract is simply not renewed or ended ahead of time. I always thought of us contractors as stateless mercenaries, and

We are not- fired usually though. Ones contract is simply not renewed or ended ahead of time. I always thought of us contractors as stateless mercenaries, and you cant expatriat (aka fire) a stateless mercenary. Also regarding the useless middle management Elon mentions- thats the beauty of sub-contracting. The poor fool at the end of the chain usually has to do the managment work and projekt-management too.