Jason Schreier

Yeah.

It's also a thing with freelance pay.

This happens with musicians all the time where you get offered a gig and you take it and you still don't know the night of the gig, whether you're getting paid or how much or who's paying you.

That happens constantly because people just don't lay it out ahead of time.

And you kind of assume, all right, they'll probably just divvy up the door after the gig and I'll get 100 bucks or something.

But I try to be like really clear with people, even with friends, like I am paying you this much for this or I have no budget for this.

This is me asking you as a friend, you know, and just laying it out and trying to be very clear.

But if it's a jazz show, it's all about how much you don't pay.

Yeah, I'll try that next time.

I'm not paying the band.

Look, guys, it's about the money I don't give you.

I'll tell a story real quick.

I've told this before, so it might sound familiar to you too, but I'll retell it anyway about my most instructive failure, which is when I was in high school, I was obsessed with the newspaper and it's all I wanted to do.

And my senior year, I like wound up becoming the editor in chief of the newspaper.

And I was so jazzed.

And I do it for a couple of weeks when one day I get called into the principal's office and he has like printed out on pieces of paper, blog posts from a live journal that I had where I talked about like smoking weed and

Hanging out with friends and stuff.

And he busted me, not because I talked about drugs, but because as my avatar, my icon on the LiveJournal, I used a picture of a teacher who looked funny.

And his punishment for this, because he was like a vindictive, just kind of awful principal that it's funny.

We talked about this at my high school reunion last year, like even with other teachers about how awful this guy was.