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tony - not sure what the contract will say but it rarely seems to make difference... i thought maybe the fact tht i have gone to the effort of getting my own letter, will make them realise i will not be messed with.
one company i worked for kept claiming they were waiting on the contracts to come back from somewhere and we ended up signing them at the end of the shoot ... i realised later that although they were a standard contract - seen loads of identical ones that they had added a small extra clause in mine saying that any budget overspend would be taken from my wages....hence why i didnt see it till the end, and not realising any issue, i glanced over it and signed it...
aside from that being out of order, the 3 instances of overspend were THERE fault! buying things i already had, insisting we pay extra to get somethign we couldnt afford and correcting a cockup by one of their crew...