Are you TRYING to confuse me?

OK, small business needs to be run like a business. We all know this. There's no sense to buying something your company can't possibly afford because, "It's a write-off". Yeah it is - but first you have to PAY for it, then you get to write it off. Maybe the rules are different for giant corporate entities, a bit more "elastic", maybe so flexible the rules lay on the floor - like my kitchen mat, but nonetheless for the rest of us (78% - of businesses have less than 10 employees -remember?) we are expected to be upright and do the right thing. We are expected to read all contracts, understand all agreements, proof all leasing papers and the like.

So then, imagine my gasp when I upgraded a company IPod, and was given this message, "Please read & accept our new license agreement", alright, now you know I'm not a complainer , but this "new agreement" was 37 pages long. Long story, made short - guess what - I just paged to "ACCEPT" and moved on. But this brought a thought to mind.

Companies, and individuals revive this kind of "amendment", or agreement alteration ALL the time. Credit card Acceptance agreements, Company Credit Cards new and updated "changes to our agreement with You" - etc. Pages & pages, and then when you think your done - more pages. What do you do? What do we all do? Well, in some cases we don't have to DO any thing, these are simply the new rules, sometimes we have to initial, or even press OK. Since we don't have a spare room full of lawyers on staff, we simply cannot read these missives, and even if we do - DO WE UNDER STAND THEM? We are all bound by contracts, but this seems one-sided. Or, are we doomed to a world where we have to live by 10 pages of rules in 5 pt type that we would never agree to - if we had a choice.

Oh - and about the "not a complainer comment - don't ask my family and friends - they have some misguided notion that I "occasionally" complain..... Note To Self - explain to them how wrong they are.