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Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by andruby on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:31PM (#27977223)
I once worked on a startup founded by lawyers and they would do this all the time. Never put things in writing that they might be flexible on later. I hated that part.
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Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by smcl on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:03PM (#27978660)
Follow up with an email (or message or whatever the medium is) confirming the agreed-upon outcome of the offline discussion? This is good practice anyway, summarising what was said over an hour long discussion can often reveal people came away with very different interpretation of what was agreed upon
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