My contracts are not that complicated. I intentionally make them easy enough for some human resource mouthbreather to understand. This one potential client that called me on Tuesday has been crying for me to send over some resumes ”in good faith” – they need three people in Nashville ASAP – while they wait for HR to sign and approve our deal.
No fucking way. I don’t do good faith when my agreement is on a fourth grade reading level. In fact, I won’t even call on an existing candidate on your behalf until this sucker is signed. I have made that very clear to the two people I am in contact with over there. Odds are anyone that is wishy-washy with a damn contract is going to try and weasel out of a full fee or they’ll slow pay, so why waste my time?
So the holdup is that HR gave it to legal, legal approved and gave it to operations, operations approved and gave it back to HR, and HR won’t sign it. She doesn’t want to “put her name on anything” even though the field ops people are screaming at her and she got approval from everyone that matters, and both legal and ops say it is her responsibility to sign since this is under HR’s budget. Of course she doesn’t want to pay for me to do her job.
The regional calls me again and is begging for help, and I tell him I have paying clients to deal with, but if I was him I’d put the HR lady on a plane today and get her ass pulling double shifts at this place while he goes and finds staff.