Looks like the exceprt is largely from an old Irish play called "Playboy of the Western World"
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@hoodaticus said:
In the U.S. it's very simple. If you are subject to detailed direction and control by the principal in how you perform your tasks, then you are an employee. If you aren't, you're a contractor.
Case in point. If I hire someone to grout and tile my kitchen floor, they're probably a contractor. If I have the right to make them take out the dogs, fetch the newspaper, make me coffee, etc, then they are an employee.
I worked as a developer for several years for a defense contractor working for a defense contractor working for the Air Force. I was an employee of the first contractor, and a sub-contractor of the second. My contracting firm seemed only exist as a useless buerocratic middleman to fulfill the prime contractor's mandated requirement of 15% subcontractors. And the prime could never offer me a position due to the contract they signed with my employer, and I can never work for another defense contractor due to the contract I signed with my employer. None of us subcontractors got what could be considered "consultant rates," since the subcontracting company typically took 20% or more from the rate the prime billed, and we stayed on the same projects for years at a time, basically temporary permanent employees. We also took all of our direction from the prime contractor, and rarely spoke to anyone at our subcontrating firm.
This matroyshka doll-like arrangement is a side-effect created by a rule the Air Force has that requires all contracts to have at least 15% sub-contractors, in order to "help small business."
Needless to say, I work in a different industry now, as a real employee.