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The last few days in Annoying Client Requests:

Posted by ralph wiggum (aka Wiggum17) Dec 4 '14, 16:39

Client is a bidder to buy a company. All bidders have been asked to submit their prices, as well as their requested changes to a draft sale agreement provided by the seller.

After several weeks of internal discussions about all the things the client needs to add to the draft sale agreement to make sure it is protected against risk, client is happy with the substance of the changes.

However, 3 days ago, a higher up dude at the client decides that we need to make the list of changes "look shorter" without actually changing any of the substance.

After 3 rounds of amendments to try to condense things into denser and denser paragraphs, yesterday I finally gave up and *changed the margins*. This was seen as an improvement, but now I still need to reduce 2 more pages.

I'm seriously considering reducing the font size, but I'm afraid it will seem too sarcastic.

Responses:

"Sure thing, annoying client. It's your $450 an hour!" -- nm - Roger More Dec 4, 17:09 4
- You laugh, but my hourly charge out rate is...more than that. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 4, 17:12 3
  - Heh heh. I love it -- nm - Epiphany Dec 4, 17:22
  - Oh right, Freehills. -- nm - Roger More Dec 4, 17:21 1
    - Why do you assume it's not because I'm just *that* awesome?!? nm - ralph wiggum Dec 4, 17:23
Redo the entire document in text speech. -- nm - Dano Dec 4, 16:59 1
- One of my colleagues suggested changing it all to Wing Dings, then dropping the mic and walking out. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 4, 17:00
Drop all gs in words ending in 'ing'. -- nm - Reagen Dec 4, 16:48
So your difficult client is asking you to make him appear less difficult to his client. -- nm - Roger More Dec 4, 16:43
In every other paragraph, remove all vowels -- nm - prayformojo Dec 4, 16:42 1
- I'm considering removing all hard returns to get a 10 page solid block of text. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 4, 16:53

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