If they are okie, I am okie.

Once again, I found myself embroiled in (yet) another painful contract negotiation, where I seriously felt the legal team from the other side are a bunch of, for the lack of a better word, dweebs.

Here’s an example of our correspondences today:

Dweebs: We do not agree to given such a right to reproduce and retain copies of the said documents to your company.

Agree to given? I bit my tongue (or rather my typing fingers) and wrote back:

Frou: Since these documents relate to shipment clearances performed by your company on our behalf, and is the only set of document available to evidence that such shipment actually took place, what is your rationale for not producing them to us and allowing us to retain them? Please note that the phrase, “aforesaid documents” is already defined as “any records pertaining to this Agreement” hence we are not asking for any sensitive or personal records of your company that are unrelated to the performance of your services to us.

Dweebs: We are okie with the statement then.

OKIE??
Okie lor…