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Recently, I’ve been in to positions where I have to sign documents that actually require me to read them. Just to save time, I use a trick to lessen my reading-burden.
I ask a rather playful question to the document giver and make them explain the document to me. I go for the worst case scenario of how the agreement could be used against me if I fail to knowingly or unknowingly go against the terms of the document.
Example:
Document Giver: Hands me a document
Me: Is this trying to say that you guys are allowed to charge me $20k if something goes wrong?
DG: Goes on to yap about the fine details of the document
Of course, this is not a good strategy for every case where you have to sign something, but It’s been helpful to me in some cases.