House Rules.
We’ll always do our best to fulfill your needs and exceed your expectations, but it’s important to have things written down so that we both know what’s what, at any moment you can review our specific Statement of Work.
However here are our non-negotiable House Rules that we contract into every agreement. This maybe be towards the end of your SOW with us, under the section: Dogma House Rules
Work Hours/Days: This agreement assumes work will be completed within the standard workweek (Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.).
Our Standard workweek is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. From 9 am in the morning to 6 pm in the evening. Some of us kids and we intend on seeing them grow up. Plus, if we’re burnt out, we’re just not that good at our jobs.
We don’t believe in grinding our creatives to exhaustion to prove we are the best or to keep our jobs.
The stark, Stone-Cold-Steve-Austin reality is this; neither we nor you are saving lives. So we’ve decided to not bring that music industry working environment here. (circa Interscope Records 1996-2004).
We believe in boundaries and where some creative agencies or production houses will promise you the world. We won’t.
What we promise is you is a level of work and originality that you are unlikely to achieve on your own with a network of seasoned, award-winning creatives in almost any major location on the planet.
Dogma and all of its subsidiary entities are closed on all major holidays and the entire week of Christmas and New Year.
Schedule: The work outlined in all of our agreements will be turned around within a reasonable, non-rush schedule to be determined, where possible, and mutually agreed upon at the start of each project. Late or weekend hours incurred to accommodate additional compressed deadlines, if needed, will be negotiated separately.
Client Responsibilities
Client Representative. As a client of Dogma, you have full authority to provide and obtain all necessary information and approvals throughout this project.
Client Responsibilities. As a client of Dogma, it’s understood you have all the necessary rights and ownership in such materials to permit Dogma to use them for the project.
Client Approvals. As a client of Dogma, you approve and proofread all final designs, type, press proofs, and test sites.
Dogma makes all efforts to ensure that no information is misrepresented. However, the client assumes all responsibility for the content. The Client is responsible for all approval of all tangible materials and artwork will be assumed after the work has been submitted.
Client Changes. In order to avoid errors, text changes and corrections will not be taken over the telephone and must be provided electronically. Any text with extensive changes must also be provided as a marked-up hard copy, indicating the revised text. Except in the case of dialogue changes within Scripted Content.
Finally, We don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, gay, trans, purple, able-bodied, or a talking brain in a jar.
Everyone, absolutely everyone is welcome at DOGMA… on three unwavering conditions:
Strive for delivering Authenticity and Originality. Knowing that you won’t always do it.
Have something to say. The best idea might come from the Janitor. It’s just the way it goes.
Question Everything.
Oh, and Fuck What You Heard.
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