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Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Ehh, reading the article makes it clear that the farmer fucked up.
Best case, he gave it a thumbs up to show he read it and then forgot to ever follow up or reject the contract. However it seems like he had previously accepted and executed contracts via text, which reduces this likelihood.
Worst case, he did the thumbs up to show he agreed to it, and now is trying to back out either because he can't make the deadline, or because the price of it has shot up.
Neither case is great for the farmer. Contracts can be made from whatever form - verbal contracts are perfectly acceptable, so I'm not sure why people are freaking out about this. If he had said "Agreed", or "yes" in response to the text then that would be taken as confirmation of the contract too.
Its worth noting that they had completed "15 to 20 contracts previously" and that they had negotiated previous contracts via text message. This process became the norm during the pandemic.
In other words it's within this context that made it agreement... not that thumbs ups can universally be used to agree to contracts.
Perhaps it is just me. But I thumbs up requests to review stuff all the time. It has never meant "I reviewed that and agree"
I consider it as assent to do the thing they asked me to do. Which seems like it was 'review this'.
I guess it is time to change. Maybe an alias from ":thumbs up:" to "I will take a look!" is in order.
I always go for the trusty π
It's a yes basically.
Q: "Can you review this?". A: "yes [I can]".
Q: "have you reviewed this?" A: "yes [I have]β.
But having to explain to coworkers that Y means yes and N means no, don't leave any room for misinterpretation.
"On it" or "checking" is my acknowledgement.
πis my approval.
Last thing I want is a trainee jumping the gun!
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