Dispatch from DesWorld #2

[angledge]

On Thursday, I was complaining to Des about some maps he’d had me produce for a project. "Des," I grumbled, "these maps aren’t even to scale!"

"They don’t need a scale. Just print them out, all right?" he replied.

"But Des, in our contract, we said we were going to follow the ASTM standard for this report. And the ASTM standard specifies scaled maps!"

"Oh, tish-tosh! We say a lot of things."

So there you have it: contractual language is null & void. WTF does "tish-tosh" mean, anyway?

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Comments

[thereject.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Eventually he's going to be dealing with someone that's going to call him on that, and having a client hit you with the contractual penalties is not a fun thing.

I know.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

I worry about that too. But there's nothing I can do - I pointed out the problem & alerted him to the contractual obligation. If he tells me to go ahead & publish the maps ... well, he's the boss.