Having been on the receiving end of terribly broken "pipelines" at startups wanting to hammer away at my resources, the right response is terminate first discus

Having been on the receiving end of terribly broken "pipelines" at startups wanting to hammer away at my resources, the right response is terminate first discuss later. I know of a company that explicitly had a "call us to discuss first" clause in their contract with a smaller cloud provider. Everyone was on holiday and not answering the phones while their hacked account was being used to spin up dozens of boxes launching a DoS attack against a crypto scam site. Guess who had to eat the bill on that one?