It stops for new work at once; a job already underway finishes.
That sentence is the whole timing, and it is the same wherever your way of working has been licensed. Stopping costs you nothing. It needs nobody's agreement. You do not have to give a reason, and nobody is going to ask you for one.
From that day, nothing new starts under it.
There is no waiting period before it takes effect. It takes effect when it arrives.
From the day your notice lands, your way of working stops being something anybody can pick. Not at one machine — at every machine, on every crew, at every company it was licensed to. Nobody can select it for a job and no machine can be cleared to run it. The name is off the shelf.
There is no grace window. No wind-down quarter. No last batch. No we have work booked, give us until the end of the season. If those words ever turn up in an arrangement about your work, they did not come from here.
What it costs you, and who has to agree
- Nothing. No penalty, no clawback, no fee for walking away, no charge for the trouble of it.
- Nobody's agreement. Not ours, not the company running the machine, not the crew that was using it. Stopping is not a request and it is not something anybody grants you.
- No reason. Not a good one, not a written one, not any. You changed your mind is the whole of it, and there is no box for it.
- Nothing owed to you is touched. Hours already run stay counted and stay owed.
Free, on your own say, needing nobody's agreement, effective when it arrives, and no reason required.
You can also stop one thing and leave the rest. The permissions you gave are separate papers, each signed on its own and each ended on its own, and ending one does not drag the others with it.
A job already running finishes, and that is the one delay in it.
Stopping a machine mid-pass is its own hazard. The honest version of this promise says so out loud instead of pretending the machine is a light switch.
You know what a mid-pass stop looks like, because you have stood beside one. A face half cut. A load half placed. A trench open with nobody's plan for what happens next. A machine parked in a state somebody now has to work out, and a crew standing around it while they do. That is not the safer outcome. It is a different and worse one, and it would be a strange thing to cause on purpose with a letter.
So the job that was already running finishes, and then it is done. That is the delay. It is bounded by a job, not by a term — not a notice period, not a quarter, not a renewal date, not the length of some contract two other companies signed with each other.
Nobody can stretch it. Not us, and not the outfit running the machine. There is no clause anywhere that buys more time and no fee that purchases any. If you are ever told your stop is waiting on a contract, a billing cycle, a quarter or a review, that is not this and you should say so.
Stopping reaches forward, never backwards. The hours that job ran are counted and paid in the ordinary way.
You are told two dates, and never just the first one.
Stopping produces two facts on two different days. Handing over the first as though it were the second is the usual way a promise like this gets quietly broken, and it is the thing this page refuses outright.
The day it stops being picked.
The running job has finished. From that day nobody can choose your way of working, at any machine, on any crew, anywhere it was licensed.
It answers one question: can this still be used? No.
The day the last copy is gone, backups included.
Not the working copies. The last one, wherever it was sitting, including the ones nobody looks at until something goes wrong.
It answers the other question: does any of this still exist? No.
The short date arrives first and it sounds like an answer. It is an answer to a different question. A person given only that one has been told that nothing can use their work, while copies of it are still on a shelf somewhere. That is why you get both, every time, and why the short one is never allowed to stand in for the long one.
The gap between the two is not slack and it is not somebody's discretion. It is how long the last copies take to roll out of the backups they were sitting in, and the long date is worked out from that rather than guessed at. Where it turns on somebody else's storage, you are told whose before you sign, not after you ask.
Two dates, always. The day it stops being picked, and the day the last copy is gone with the backups. Anyone who gives you one date has given you half an answer, and it is the convenient half.
You send it to Even Steven, because that is who you signed with.
Not to us, and not to the company running the machine. The permissions are held by the people whose paper you put your name on, and that is where a stop belongs.
Even Steven tells us. We take the name off the shelf, the running job finishes, every copy is deleted, and the two dates are worked out and told to you. The company that had it on its machines confirms in writing the day of the last job and the day its last copy was gone, and that confirmation is what the long date is built from. None of that is a favour anybody is doing you, and none of it waits on anybody's goodwill.
We never see a reason, because a reason is never asked for and never passed on. There is nothing on our side that records why anybody stopped, so there is nothing to ask about later and nothing for anyone else to read.
This can be written as flatly as it is because of how the work is held. Yours is one named thing, under your name and nobody else's, never stirred in with anybody's. So stopping it is an ordinary day's work on a named thing: off the shelf, copies deleted, both dates reported. There is no residue to go looking for and no argument to be had about whether a trace of you is still in there, because nothing of yours was ever mixed in.
Nothing on this site asks you to sign anything, and nothing here is an offer to you. If you want the stopping terms in the words of the paper that is actually yours, they are in your agreement with Even Steven, and that is the copy to read.
The notice goes to Even Steven.
They hold your agreement and your permissions, and a stop is effective when it reaches them. What happens next is on this page, and it is the same for every company we license to.