Need advice

incus432

i had exactly a version of this ambiguous (at best) contract clause in a large nationally linked EA.  When challenged about it the manager claimed it didnt mean what I thought (although I think my reading was the only logical one). Not impressed with their contract and that their legal dept thought this was ok, but I took the manager's explicit email re-interpretation as good enough if they ever tried it on. He also said they could not amend the cotract as it was national and policy.

All this just tends to confirm stereotypes of EAs as slick duplicitous and amoral doesn't it?

eddddy

incus432 said:

All this just tends to confirm stereotypes of EAs as slick duplicitous and amoral doesn't it?

I'm not sure that not being very good at written English confirms that people are slick duplicitous and amoral.

Maybe they're a bit unprofessional, and/or not good with attention to detail.

FWIW, I often agree contract clarifications and amendments by email exchange - with many different types of company.

But I always find it's much easier to get agreement if I write the details of what I want in an email, and ask the company to agree to what I've written.

That's far less painful than trying to persuade somebody at the company to write something appropriate in an email to me.