Possible new contract
Andy on Mar 14th 2006
My business partners and I were reviewing an NDA for a potential contract today. We were marveling at the dense prose used in it. I mean, the lawyers really earned their keep on this one. No one with a soul was going to understand it.
Anyway, that got us to thinking about NDA’s in general. I suggested that NDA’s should be written in a lighthearted poem format. My suggestion was:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Please work for us
But don’t tell anyone you knew
Its a good thing I’m an engineer.
The other guys tried, but they were even less successful than I was. I mean theirs didn’t even rhyme. psh. Whoever heard of a poem that didn’t rhyme?
After coming to the realization that we weren’t poets, we started talking about how much we should charge this sucker. I mean mark. I mean customer. Customer. Whatever.
Its always a delicate balance. If you charge too much, they assume you’re trying to rob them outright. But you charge too little, they assume you’re going to steal something on the way out. So you have aim for the price range that says “I’m probably not a thief.”
Regardless, I’m pretty excited about this. Its always good to have new suckers come in. I mean customers.
Filed in Amusing, Contracting, Order N | One response so far
spitgirl Mar 14th 2006 at 06:00 pm 1
If you want to work for me
I’d have to pay a little fee
But, wait, I’d like for you to sign
A little contract I’ve designed
It’s just a standard NDA
That outlines what you do and say
So don’t go telling anyone
‘Bout what we’ve worked on, what we’ve done
‘Cause while I’m paying, don’t you see -
I’d like to keep this secrecy.