Asked for by name, never picked by a number.
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 for every hour it works because you kept the original.
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 a name goes on the list because people who have worked with you asked for it, and it stays there on what you record, never on a score. Being good is not the bar. Being asked for is.
What you get, and what we will not move on.
- 01Your skill stays yoursNothing here stops you working, teaching, taking on apprentices or going somewhere else tomorrow. There is nothing there to sell us even if you wanted to, and we would not take it.
- 02Paid every hour it worksEvery hour it is in use is an hour you are paid for, for as long as that lasts, rather than a fee or a buyout. The payment exists because you kept the original, so it has a reason to keep existing.
- 03Your name on itThe person clearing a job sees whose way of working they are clearing, and it is your name they see. Nothing runs under a house name or a number.
- 04You can end itGive notice and it comes out of service. Nothing is charged for leaving and nothing already paid is clawed back. Then we tell you the true date every copy is gone.
- 05You can check the countThe count is the hours it worked and what they are worth to you, and it comes from the same record that shows who cleared the work. The people doing the counting are the people who owe you the money, so you get to check it.
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.
You are asked first
An owner can arrange a recording. Only you can agree to one, and you are told what is recorded, in plain words, before it starts. Without your yes there is no session, whatever has been arranged.
The right to withdraw is yours
You gave the consent, so you can take it back, and it does not require your employer's agreement or anybody else's.
It does not travel without you
What you taught your employer's machine stays with that employer, and goes nowhere else without a fresh agreement carrying your signature.
It is not supplied against you
A recording is licensed for the uses you said yes to. A use you did not say yes to, your employer wanting it for discipline or a dismissal included, is not one we supply it for.
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 can earn while you are doing something else, and one day that will include the days your back has decided otherwise. Nothing here decides how many seats an owner runs; that was always the owner's call and it still is.