{"id":83,"date":"2009-11-19T19:15:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T02:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/the-contract"},"modified":"2009-11-19T19:15:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T02:15:57","slug":"the-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/the-contract","title":{"rendered":"The Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETWEEN<\/p>\n<p>Company (the &#8220;Customer&#8221;)<br \/>\n\tOF THE FIRST PART<\/p>\n<p>-AND-<\/p>\n<p>Independent Contractor (the &#8220;Service Provider&#8221;)<br \/>\n\tOF THE SECOND PART<\/p>\n<p>Customer summons hoard of managers with superiority complexes the size of Manhattan, but misses.<\/p>\n<p>Service Provider rolls Contractor Snob +10. Inflicts damage to company ego.<\/p>\n<p>Customer rolls a 10 and dodges Contractor Snob with in-house timelines and expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Customer inflicts self damage from unrealistic expectations and lack of concrete experience.<\/p>\n<p>Service Provider defies Customer reasoning with concrete estimates and diagrams.<\/p>\n<p>*Humiliation!*<\/p>\n<p>Angry email takes all.<\/p>\n<p>So my work, eleven-month-long-project, gets a group of chuckleheads featured in the Guardian, and they terminated the contract on me based on my &#8220;poor quality of work&#8221;, and I have to fight for the last paycheck, as usual&#8230;<br \/>\nBrain broke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETWEEN Company (the &#8220;Customer&#8221;) OF THE FIRST PART -AND- Independent Contractor (the &#8220;Service Provider&#8221;) OF THE SECOND PART Customer summons hoard of managers with superiority complexes the size of Manhattan, but misses. Service Provider rolls Contractor Snob +10. Inflicts damage to company ego. Customer rolls a 10 and dodges Contractor Snob with in-house timelines and expectations. Customer inflicts self damage from unrealistic expectations and lack of concrete experience. Service Provider defies Customer reasoning with concrete estimates and diagrams. *Humiliation!* Angry email takes all. So my work, eleven-month-long-project, gets a group of chuckleheads featured in the Guardian, and they terminated the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}