> They hired me as "contractor", but promised I would be treated as employee, to facilitate things legally. In the US this is both common and irrelevant; if yo

> They hired me as "contractor", but promised I would be treated as employee, to facilitate things legally. In the US this is both common and irrelevant; if you're treated like an employee you are an employee. This isn't helpful to you OP, but if you, dear reader, hear this at a future job, recognize this as problematic and (to my layperson understanding) illegal. If there's nothing you can do to improve your work situation, or if you must continue working while you improve your work situation, it's really important for you to divest your sense of self worth from your job performance, for the sake of your own mental health. You are not the sum of your work, these people cannot tell you how "good" you are; they've lost your trust.