The red flag in people which I consider a true red flag

I had an incident today in one of my projects where I misstepped and the guy who hired me fired me. I had delivered and would continue to deliver the work but was being ‘high maintenance’ discussing my compensation. I wasn’t even negotiating but messaged unnecessarily about some tactical nuances related to my invoices.

“OMG, I don’t believe it”, the guy messaged me. “Forget it. Stop the work. This is not going to work.”

I was wrong because I had already discovered from a couple of earlier situations that my…