when i was a trainee in commprop
one of the secretaries came in to see me late one evening, crying her eyes out. she was sending out a contract for signing by two different people, and the beyond-anal partner kept sending it back to her, saying it was wrong.

she begged me to read it and see if i could find the problem. i have quite an anal eye (so to speak) myself for spelling and grammar, so i cockily took it off her. i couldn't see a problem. i read them both several times, but nothing.

eventually we both went in to see him, and said that we couldn't find it. he looked at us as if we were retarded.

"well," he said heavily, "if you can't see that one is stapled horizontally and the other vertically......" $*$*%^(%^*"$&*$*$% THEY ARE GOING TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE, YOU COCK LOLLIPOP.

she quit shortly after that. she was something like his 13th secretary in a year. meanwhile two of my colleagues had revenge sex on his desk one night, and one of them kicked out and smashed the picture of his pie-faced daughter to smithereens. i was sitting in the room with him when he bollocked the cleaner for that.

a desperately unpleasant man.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 27 Oct 2014, 14:30, 1 reply)

no one gives a fuck

(Baggenfrock get fucked, Mon 27 Oct 2014, 15:15, closed)

except you and your toddler
no, wait.

WITH your toddler.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 27 Oct 2014, 16:10, closed)

Only of (minor) interest to Rachelswipe
So many anal partners...Takes the piss to call them "commercial lawyers". I was assistant to Partner A for a client who did a lot of similar transactions. Partner A was on hols so Partner B was called in to oversee the next transaction.

Client was very specific. They had just done an almost identical transaction and they wanted the SPA (i'm a corporate whore) to be the same as on the last deal. I had worked on the last deal and it really was almost a case of swapping the names, addresses and amounts.

Partner B was anal. He could not help tinkering. He could not help changing this clause to update this and that clause to make it match best practice. He had me work for 2 or 3 days solid (coming in for 7.00am) changing each clause almost one at a time, several times. Lo and behold after a week's solid work at a combined charge out of about £800/hr the client got the firm's standard document back - which bore absolutely no resemblance to the original or what the client wanted. Idiot.

I never had sex on his desk tho.
(Gusofnavarone always makes a map of france from sarnies, Mon 27 Oct 2014, 16:37, closed)

dear god
what a bell-end. this is why i only managed my corporate seat and ran screaming from the building when they asked me if i wanted to qualify there.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 27 Oct 2014, 16:57, closed)

Bell Ends
I can imagine in that line of work there would be quite a few instances of complete tossery over single words and placement .of punctuation marks
(Wagane, Tue 28 Oct 2014, 6:13, closed)

boring fact for you
long contracts such as sale agreements, leases etc often do not have any punctuation marks in the clauses. this is to prevent them from having unwanted emphasis, or subsequent arguments over the meaning of the marks, eg whether a list is intended to be closed/exhaustive or not. so if you have a list, eg:

the tenant will put and keep in repair maintain decorate clean replace the carpets fixtures and fittings reinstate any damage from time to time as necessary

blah blah, you don't have any commas or anything else.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Oct 2014, 9:53, closed)

no one gives a fuck

(Baggenfrock get fucked, Tue 28 Oct 2014, 15:16, closed)

www.b3ta.com/questions/controlfreaks/post2400353
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Oct 2014, 15:23, closed)