I am Douglas Tarlow

My boss sends our lawyers a 100 page document in pdf that they needed to sign on the last page and return via email fast, to make a deadline that was about 2 h away. The 2h were almost up and there still was no email. So, my boss calls them and it went like this:

-Sorry, but the document was too many pages so it took us a lot of time to scan it, we are now finishing up…

-But… um… I sent you a pdf document, you already had a file…

-Well, we had to sign it so we had to print it and scan it, duh

-But… um… you only needed to scan the last page and replace the last page of the pdf, why the whole document???

-(with genuine interest) Reeeaaally? You can do that? We definitely have to look into that! Anyway, just a few pages left now, we’ll email soon - don’t worry.

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