Tom_in_CA
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Here's an example of how Lawyers can dream up the silliest things, in our litigious society :
I own a small company with several employees. We work in road construction (street sweepers). As such, sometimes we do jobs that require a paperwork called "certified payrolls". It's a form that is filled out with the driver's payroll data, to ensure/prove that we paid him the correct state & union mandated rate of pay.
The reverse side of the form is the affidavit part, where we sign that "... the aforementioned data is true and correct", blah blah . The person who signs that can be ... simply ... whoever does payroll and paperwork for the company in question . Eg.: The payroll clerk, or secretary or, whomever.
Well at a recent job I was on, this level of certification wasn't good enough, I suppose, for some lawyer. So he came up with ANOTHER form, that showed that : Whomever it is, that signs the form, LIKEWISE has the company owner's permission, to be signing it , IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Makes sense, eh ? After all, what if an unscrupulous secretary or payroll clerk fabricated something w/o the company owner's knowledge ??
So we, along with an entire list of sub's on the job, was sent this supplemental form to sign. And the instructions made clear that: "If the company owner themselves, was ALSO the one that signs the certified payrolls, then there is no need to fill out the supplemental form". Since, of course, this would be redundant for someone to "authorize himself" to sign something, eh ?
A month went by. Just today I got word that ... no ... the upper management lawyer people decided that every vendor must sign the form. Even if they themselves are the one who signs the forms.
Yup, can you believe that ? So today, I signed the form, that authorizes me to sign the form. Gee, otherwise my signature would not hold up in court, if I hadn't signed a form that authorized me to sign a form ?
What's this crazy litigious world coming to ? I got a good laugh out of that.
I own a small company with several employees. We work in road construction (street sweepers). As such, sometimes we do jobs that require a paperwork called "certified payrolls". It's a form that is filled out with the driver's payroll data, to ensure/prove that we paid him the correct state & union mandated rate of pay.
The reverse side of the form is the affidavit part, where we sign that "... the aforementioned data is true and correct", blah blah . The person who signs that can be ... simply ... whoever does payroll and paperwork for the company in question . Eg.: The payroll clerk, or secretary or, whomever.
Well at a recent job I was on, this level of certification wasn't good enough, I suppose, for some lawyer. So he came up with ANOTHER form, that showed that : Whomever it is, that signs the form, LIKEWISE has the company owner's permission, to be signing it , IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Makes sense, eh ? After all, what if an unscrupulous secretary or payroll clerk fabricated something w/o the company owner's knowledge ??
So we, along with an entire list of sub's on the job, was sent this supplemental form to sign. And the instructions made clear that: "If the company owner themselves, was ALSO the one that signs the certified payrolls, then there is no need to fill out the supplemental form". Since, of course, this would be redundant for someone to "authorize himself" to sign something, eh ?
A month went by. Just today I got word that ... no ... the upper management lawyer people decided that every vendor must sign the form. Even if they themselves are the one who signs the forms.
Yup, can you believe that ? So today, I signed the form, that authorizes me to sign the form. Gee, otherwise my signature would not hold up in court, if I hadn't signed a form that authorized me to sign a form ?
What's this crazy litigious world coming to ? I got a good laugh out of that.
