Agency commits to booking for 6 weeks. Drops you after 3 weeks. Is that normal? What would you do?

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50% kill fee. You need to state this before they hire you. If you didn’t, next time you will.

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What does your contract say re: cancellation? Some have a notice period built in. Others can be cancelled at any time and you don’t have much recourse, unless you tried to negotiate a kill fee.

You could try to tell them, it puts you in a tough spot since you booked that time for them and turned down other jobs - and ask if there’s a different project you could work on for the remaining 3 weeks. If not, you can decide not to work with them or ask to add an early cancellation clause where you’d get paid a percentage of unused days.

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Your "contract" had an at will clause in it. Unfortunately, it's standard in our industry

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Happened to me too. 8 weeks turned into 3. Eff digitas in the a.

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Bill for the other three . Unless there is no paper trail then you sadly have nothing to do

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Smile, and say please let me know when I can jump in again. Loved working with your team. Then log off and cry. I know it sucks, but then just start reaching out to other agencies. Now is the busy time. You will find something.

Should also say, I just had a twelve week gig turn into a nine week gig. Nothing I could do.

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I once had a 10 week turn into a five week. I just sucked it up.

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