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{{a|people|[[File:Mithril.jpg|center|450px|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.
{{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?
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 and  in a utterly hopeless, but revolution
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.
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.
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*[[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).
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