[pitspotter]

I frequently get mails from banks and other service providers with subject lines like 'changes to our agreement'. I don't read those either. Mind you, it might be fun to send a few unilateral changes back their way, detailed in a suitably upbeat or condescending letter.

[PaulKeeble]

A few contracts I have done in the past I got the terms through and had serious issues with so just ended up blacking out and initially it or adding in an appendix. I don't think I have ever seen a company say a thing about a unilateral change to the contract I just made without negotiation, they like most simply people sign it and accept it without reading it.

[eesmith]

One one contract I asked for some changes. The company said that they've dealt with hundreds of companies who agreed with the contract and didn't see why it should change.

I pointed out that the contract had several places where it referred to other documents I must agree to, referenced by URL, and the linked-to documents didn't exist.

[PaulKeeble]

I have seen contracts that made the work I was meant to do for them impossible, that type of work wasn't allowed under the contract.

The classic example is a company wanting me to work on some open source software and potentially put in patches on it but having a clause in their contract that assigns all rights to the software I produce to them.

They don't often read them themselves to see if they are sensible or correct before sending them. The entire situation is really dumb, no one anywhere in the process seems to read them.