How close is your manager/managed relationship to an abusive relationship? Gaslighting, Finical abuse, Devaluation, Psychological projection, etc.?

I'm not even sure who my manager is.

I don't have a manager. Just one of the perks of freelancing lmao.

"Managed relationship - don't worry about maintenance and focus on what's important"

My manager is surprisingly nice and not a piece of shit.

Full program:
Gaslighting
explained to me how I can see how to see invoices timesheets.
Shits on me a few months later for not submitting work logs at the end of every single day. Reason being they invoice them to the client at the same day. I look at the timesheets, and I see that up to a few months in the past they apparently havent been invoiced. He discredits that argument by saying that the information is not meant for us. Denied my „audacious superstitions“ that he showed me how to look this up a few months prior.

Devaluing
Clients are very happy, but I always get what on for not following 100% their way of doing things. Even when I do, it’s very shit and I need to do better.

they complain about bad code going into prod all the time, and shitting on us for getting another invoice canceled. I have told them multiple times about git solving exactly that problem. We can’t use it because this retard managed to accidentally delete one customers codebase with git. (???)

I've had very bad and very good, no middle ground.

The bad, won't get in detail because they have been covered already. (And whenever they went stupid enough to complain to higher ups about me they ended fired).

The good, oh the joy.

Those managers would actually take care of all the bureaucracy bullshit (they'd fill my time logs, answer retarded mails from clients), had at least a bare minimum of tech knowledge. (Were able to at least know what a terminal is), and wouldn't make stupid promises to salesmen throwing us under the bus.

And above all, they understood they are just another (necessary) cog on the machine, and not our bosses

I'm from Egypt, the sole reason companies open offices here is to financially abuse the fuck outta you.