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===I am a human being=== | ===I am a human being=== | ||
The department whose individuals you can’t be bothered naming to which you forward awkward queries you can't be bothered reading for yourself, let along taking the time to understand. You may never how much a lawyer resents that to-all email addressed: “Hi, [[Legal]]”<ref>There is something worse: faux joviality, which conveys as honed sarcasm, as in the phrase “Hi, [[Legal Eagles]]!!!”</ref>. | The department whose individuals you can’t be bothered naming to which you forward awkward queries you can't be bothered reading for yourself, let along taking the time to understand. You may never how much a lawyer resents that to-all email addressed: “Hi, [[Legal]]”<ref>There is something worse: faux joviality, which conveys as honed sarcasm, as in the phrase “Hi, [[Legal Eagles]]!!!”</ref>. | ||
===What legal isn't=== | |||
*'''[[Legal]] isn't a [[letter]]-reading service'''. You are employed by a regulated financial institution. Byu having even got in the door, you are presumed to have some kind of higher education and to be basically literate (though, having enjoyed the [[Buzzword|product of management speak]] for decades we realise this is wishful thinking). But any rate, you can read. Yes, even you [[sales]]people. | |||
*'''[[Legal]] isn't a [[contract]] signing service'''. If you want to do the crime, sign for it. If you don't understand the legal document you are signing, get your coat. | |||
===Help me, Legal === | ===Help me, Legal === | ||
The words “I cannot say: you’ll have to ask | The words “I cannot say: you’ll have to ask [[legal]]” drop like scented jewels from the lips of colleagues who can’t be bothered — or are too ''[[Fear - Risk Article|scared]]'' — to make a simple decision, or read a simple letter, by themselves. No-one ''likes'' making decisions in modern multinationals: no individual good comes of it, however much collective good may follow<ref>Individual good comes from taking ''[[taking credit|credit]]'' for decisions made once they have safely borne fruit, not from taking a [[taking a view|view]]''.</ref>. | ||
But not all legal questions are beyond the layperson’s grasp. By presumption of law, ''none'' of them are: the law [[supposes|deemed]] you know it comprehensively, however paltry your education. In the general run of things, ignorance is no excuse. Within a modern corporation, it is a virtue. | But not all legal questions are beyond the layperson’s grasp. By presumption of law, ''none'' of them are: the law [[supposes|deemed]] you know it comprehensively, however paltry your education. In the general run of things, ignorance is no excuse. Within a modern corporation, it is a virtue. | ||