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Horror stories like this are the main reason I only ever bill by the hour and invoice biweekly. Like, sure, I'll change things to meet requirements but I'm not going to work for free or go without pay for months. It's also much easier to fire bad clients or to stop working when an invoice goes unpaid for too long. The only downside to this approach is when salaried subordinates don't understand this dynamic and rack…
A lot of this feels a little "glutton for punishment". Like, they keep f*cking with him yet he continues to interact..
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This dude has screenshots, file metadata, and a contract to back him up. That contract says 12 songs. Sounds like that's all there is to it.
Horror stories like this are the main reason I only ever bill by the hour and invoice biweekly. Like, sure, I'll change things to meet requirements but I'm not going to work for free or go without pay for months. It's also much easier to fire bad clients or to stop working when an invoice goes unpaid for too long. The only downside to this approach is when salaried subordinates don't understand this dynamic and rack…
This sort of thing is why I've always kept a salaried position. I could make more, perhaps have more varied & interesting work, and maybe gain other flexibility, if I switched to contracting, but few people extolling these benefits to me ever mention the flip side when things aren't perfect – I'm more than happy to make less to avoid all that.
From the article:
> The contract never showed up.
> but if I needed more time, they would be happy to amend the contract later
No contract, no work. Work starts late because of no fault of mine, including late/no contract? Delivery is likely delayed. Want me to accept an assurance: put it in the contract or otherwise in indisputable writing now. This probably marks me as someone unsuited for contract work, or too difficult to work with as a contractor, ete, and that is fine by me!
Is it known why this response comes out now, 2-3 years after the “DOOM Eternal OST Open Letter” to which it responds? Waiting until any related NDAs time out?
Tl;dr: very messy legal proceedings and multiple settlement offers (including a proposed gag order that ZeniMax's legal team was trying to force upon Gordon) are the reason for why. And those legal negotiations started less than 2 years ago, after the release of the game. And throughout that whole post, it is evident that Gordon (despite being wronged multiple times in a row) pretty much kept giving them second, third, fourth, etc. chances to resolve it amicably, as he believed it was in the best interests of the projects ultimately succeeding. Only to get taken advantage of and being stabbed in the back multiple times by the same person he decided to give those extra chances and forgiveness to.
Mick, thats not a settlement, thats a payoff for taking a hit so the boss doesnt take the fall.
Marty wanted this to go away so he could continue ladder-climbing the tech industry. that he even attempted to do this strongly suggests hes probably paid these things out before.
A lot of this feels a little "glutton for punishment". Like, they keep f*cking with him yet he continues to interact..
