82,853
edits
Negotiator: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| (11 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{ | {{a|people|[[File:Mithril.jpg|center|450px|frame|Some discreet [[hobbit]]s yesterday.]]}}One of those good, well-tempered folk of the [[documentation unit]] whose task, though not Herculean in any aspect bar its [[tedium]], is stoutly resisting predictions that it will be [[automated]] by the end of the year — a prediction that [[legal technology|legal and technology]] luminaries have been making regularly since 1995. | ||
Do you want to know [[Waste|why]], by the way? | |||
{{ | Negotiators originally lived in little burrows in the bucolic home counties but were thrown out of their traditional homelands in the 2000s by a machine-aged army of squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned [[management consultant]]s. Now a hollowed-out, brutalised diaspora clings on to a miserable existence in dismal hovels of Belfast, Budapest, Bucharest and the outskirts of Bristol. But they are recovering. They are thriving. It is [[The ISDA Protocol|foretold]] in the sacred ancient texts of [[Aiyessdeeiyae]], that one day a special little hobbit will lead a rag-tag collection of paralegals, trainees in a utterly hopeless, but beautiful, attempt at revolution. | ||
Still, every character archetype has a weakness, and the [[Jolly Contrarian]] can reveal the innate flaw of every [[ISDA negotiator]], and that is total cluelessness about paragraph formatting in [[Microsoft Word]]. They just ''cannot'' do it. Page breaks and multi-level automatic numbering are trying enough, but asking a negotiator to format a table of {{isdaprov|Documents for Delivery}} — and every man-jack amongst them must do it — is a guaranteed disaster. | |||
The [[collective noun]] for a group of negotiators — especially those attached to the same deal — is a “[[squabble]]”. | |||
{{sa}} | |||
*[[Collective noun]]s | |||
*[[ISDA ingénue]] (a young one) | *[[ISDA ingénue]] (a young one) | ||
*[[ISDA ninja]] (an old one) | *[[ISDA ninja]] (an old one) | ||
| Line 9: | Line 16: | ||
*[[General Counsel]] (one who has escaped that and ascended into sunlit uplands - in fairness, highly unlikely to ever have seen an {{isdama}} up close) | *[[General Counsel]] (one who has escaped that and ascended into sunlit uplands - in fairness, highly unlikely to ever have seen an {{isdama}} up close) | ||
*[[Microsoft Word]] (the tool of choice). | *[[Microsoft Word]] (the tool of choice). | ||
{{ | {{c|Mythology}} | ||
{{linkedin|Nov 21}} | |||
{{ | |||