The article also attempts to paint them as overworked and abused and treated differently because they were contractors. Having worked in the big tech industry as a contractor, their description of contractor treatment and workload is pretty normal (no employee perks, quotas, etc.). This is due more to Vizcaino vs. Microsoft [1] than any sort of abusive contractor agenda.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholarship.law.berkeley.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?article=1185&amp;context=btlj" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholarship.law.berkeley.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?arti...</a>