atw: Re: Follow-up to: ITEA for a short-term contract?

Stuart Burnfield:
On Sun, 11 May 2008 18:24:40 +0800,  you wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who replied. Based on your comments, a couple of the=
 things I was
> worried about don't seem to be a problem, but I couldn't get the agency to=
 budge on any
> of the remaining points, so I ended up not signing with them.
>
> In fact a couple of items just seemed to me to be plainly wrong. They=
 weren't even
> things that were necessarily bad for me--just duplication or=
 contradictions between one
> part of the contract and the other. I couldn't even get them to clarify or=
 fix any of
> these.
>
> So if you do contract TW work and you come across one of these ITEAs, I=
 suggest you
> check it even more carefully than you would a standard contract (you *do*=
 read your
> contracts carefully, don't you?). It's not that they're necessarily bad=
 for you, it's
> that:
> - I don't think they're really designed for our situation - they're very=
 new and the
> bugs may not be ironed out yet
>

Sounds pretty silly, but on the face of it, the silliness doesn't seem to be=
 implied as a 
part of the ITEA concept (although that seems to have its own brand of=
 silliness in confusing
stages).   In fact there are some areas you nominated that sound as if they=
 are in breach of the requirements
for an ITEA anyway, so you were right to try to clarify and tell them to=
 forget it when they wouldn't 
negotiate...  (always a preferred response to legal idiocy). 


 
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