Signing bonus? Just give me a contract. I'll sign for free.
Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
The only time I think about my contract is when I'm asked about it by the media.
And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.
I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.
The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they fired me.
I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey.
When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.
I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked.
I've got a contract that keeps me around a few more years.
I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.
I've never had a huge contract.
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.
I have never stormed off over money or contracts. I am paid quite well by 'Top Gear.' I am pretty happy, and I have never seen Richard Hammond storm off, either.
I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.
This is the business of football and nothing is guaranteed to you as a player, coach or anybody else. They don't have to give you the money. They don't have to give you a longterm contract.
As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
I didn't have a contract for the first year of my time in NXT, and that was very stressful.
There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.
I have a fun clause in my contract. If I'm not having fun, I can leave.
What I did sign was a tentative contract with Impact Wrestling when they were still Impact. That contract had a clause for me, because I was already working on some stuff in other areas of television. That clause basically said that if something else in television were to happen for me, they can't be uncooperative.
But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.
I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.
That is the difference from being a manager and being a player: As a player, if you sign a contract for four years, if you want to be there for four years, you are. But as a manager, it always depends on the sack. You are always under pressure.
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.
