If it is your way of working

You are asked for by name, and we come to you.

You run your machine the way you always have. Nothing about your day changes. What we build from the recording is ours, and you are paid every hour it works because you kept the original.

Why by name

A number would rank you last.

On blind, wet or soft ground every measure you could rank by turns on you. The careful hand works slower, right up until the quick one is in the water. Feeling for a bottom you cannot see takes constant correction, so a count of corrections reads the skill as its absence. It is the same on a panel: the operator who sees a process drifting and moves early looks busier than the one who waits for the alarm.

So the list is built by name. Asked for by people who have worked with you, then checked against your record. Being good is not the bar. Being asked for is.

What you get

Five, and we will not move on any of them.

01
Your skill stays yoursNothing here stops you working, teaching, taking on apprentices or going somewhere else tomorrow. We never ask for that and we would not take it. There is nothing there to sell us even if you wanted to.
02
Paid every hour it worksA share for every hour your way of working is in use, for as long as it is in use. Not a fee. Not a buyout. You are paid because you kept the original, which means the payment has a reason to keep existing.
03
Your name on itIf a machine is working your way, it says so, and the person authorizing that work can see whose way of working they are authorizing. Your name is the point of it.
04
You can end itGive notice and it comes out of service. No penalty, no clawback, no fee for walking away. A right that costs money to use is not a right. Then we tell you the true date every copy is gone.
05
You can check the countYou see the hours it worked and what you are owed, from the same record that shows who cleared the work. The people counting the hours are the people who owe you money, so you get to see the count.

If your employer is the one recording you

Your protections travel with you, not with whoever is paying.

This is the part written for the person with the least room to say no, and it is the part we expect to be tested.

The right to withdraw is yours

Not your employer's. You gave the consent, so you can take it back, and it does not require anybody's agreement.

You are told what is recorded

In plain words, before it starts, and it is the same description we give the person paying for it.

It does not travel without you

A way of working you taught your employer's machine stays with that employer. Anywhere else takes a fresh agreement with your signature on it.

What it is not

You are not being hired, and you are not being replaced by yourself.

It is not you on somebody's site and it is not a person for the day. What is licensed is a way of working, it cannot be passed on to anybody else, and it runs only while somebody on that crew says so.

And it does not end your work. Everything you know is still in your hands tomorrow, on your own machine, for your own employer, at your own rate. What changes is that a second thing starts earning while you are doing something else — including, eventually, on days when your back has decided otherwise.

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