In plain words · ending it
Stopping it.
You can end it. It costs you nothing, it needs nobody's permission, and this page says exactly what happens on the day you do.
The day your notice arrives
It stops for new work at once; a job already underway finishes.
That is the whole rule, and it is written that way on purpose. From the day your notice arrives, nothing new starts under your name. Not one more job. Nobody can pick it for tomorrow's work, and the list will not offer it.
The one thing that does not stop the same minute is a job that is already running, and the reason is worth saying plainly instead of dressing up: pulling a machine up part-way through a pass is its own hazard. Anybody who has been on a site knows what a half-finished cut looks like and what it does to the people working around it.
So the job that is already underway runs out, and then it is done. Nothing after it begins.
Nobody can stretch that. Not us, not the outfit running the machine, not your employer, and not somebody who decides a fortnight of work counts as one long job. It is the job that was already going when your notice landed, and nothing more. If the argument ever gets made, the record shows what was underway on the day and what was not.
The day it is out of service
From the day your notice arrives, nobody can choose your way of working for new work. The job already running finishes, and its hours are counted and paid like any other. When that job is done and nothing runs it anywhere, it is out of service. That is the first date.
The day the last copy is gone
Every copy deleted, backups included. This is the later of the two, and it is the real date rather than the convenient one.
Those two are not the same day and we do not pretend they are. Taking a thing off a list happens the day it is asked for. Getting it out of every place it has been kept — including backups, which are made precisely so things survive being deleted — takes longer than that.
You are told both dates. Never just the first one. A first date on its own is the half of the answer that sounds best, and telling you only that half would be the sort of thing this is meant to be the opposite of.
The notice itself stays on file. A list that quietly deleted its own stop notices could never show anybody that it honoured one.
- No fee to end it, and no notice period to buy your way out of.
- No permission. Not from us, not from your employer, not from whoever is running the machine.
- No reason needed. You do not have to explain yourself and nobody gets to weigh whether the reason is good enough.
- Not a breach. Ending it is not you going back on anything, and it is not held against you afterwards.
Anything you are owed for hours already worked is Even Steven's to settle, and stopping does not reach backwards.
You tell Even Steven. It is their paper, their obligation and their job to act on it. Send it to them and the clock starts from the day it arrives.
What we do is the list end of it: once Even Steven says a way of working is ended, it stops being pickable for new work; the job already running finishes and is counted, and then the counting stops. But the notice is theirs to take, so do not send it here and do not wait on us.
Nobody is on the list. No day in a seat has been recorded and nothing has ever run, so no notice has ever been given and no date has ever been owed to anybody. The rule on this page is written down first, before there is anything to stop — which is the order that makes it worth reading.
Your paper is with Even Steven
Say stop to the company that holds your agreement.
Even Steven takes the notice, gives you both dates and answers anything about your own side of it. We are the list; they are the paper.
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