Vent: A client's old contract clause cost us a whole week of work

Last Tuesday, a client from a 2018 agreement hit us with a termination notice. The old contract had a 90-day 'work in progress' clause we forgot about. Meant we had to deliver everything started in the last three months, for free. That was 12 active project files. Spent the next four days just documenting and handing over assets. Has anyone else been burned by an old template clause you stopped using years ago?

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king.wyatt2mo agoMost Upvoted

Honestly, that 90 day clause saved my old firm from a lawsuit once. We had a client try to walk away with half-finished designs. Tbh, sometimes the old templates had a point.

piper_williams2mo ago

Man, that's brutal. My old boss at a print shop once found a stack of unused letterhead with a discontinued phone number from like 2005. We had to reprint a huge order for some lawyer's office because of it, total waste of a day. Old stuff just comes back to bite you.

lane.cameron2mo ago

Totally get what you mean about old stuff coming back to bite you. I used to think keeping old supplies was just being smart, like a backup plan. But your story about the letterhead is a perfect example. It's not a backup if the info is wrong and costs you a whole day to fix. Now I see it's just a trap that wastes time and money later.