You can all breathe out....

[Sockpuppet]

What did you do for him?

Er that should say "than" not "that". For some reason I agreed £x price still a healthy increase. Contract comes through and it says £y (which is £50 more).

Kept quiet, signed and returned.

[NickFitz]

Er that should say "than" not "that". For some reason I agreed £x price still a healthy increase. Contract comes through and it says £y (which is £50 more).

Kept quiet, signed and returned.

That's the way to do it

The other year I agreed a sum verbally with a client (no agent) and then found that the contract specified a higher sum. Being too honest for my own good, I mentioned it to him in case there'd been a mistake.

He just laughed and said "Yeah, I've found that if you give people more than they ask for, they like working for you."

I later discovered that all of the permies had started on salaries higher than they'd expected compared to the amount they'd pitched for at interview - sometimes quite a bit higher, simply because he thought they were worth more than they themselves did

If Carlsberg made managers...