A conflict with a manager ended with me being disallowed to work at Spotify
Sorry, but this is your fault.<p>As ever, your role as the employee (triply so as a contractor!) is to stay professional and follow directions. Yes, you and your manager had very different styles, but we are in a very fortunate position that if you dislike your employer you can just leave.<p>What you shouldn't do, is tell your obviously unstable manager to go read a book on managing, created sarcastic backlog items to mock his micro-managing and directly went against his orders publicly?<p>Your manager was bad, but you should have done your job and politely swapped teams. Instead you're portraying yourself as a poor contractor who only slightly mocked his manager, then blasted the company on a custom built blog.