Today was spent in legal with one of their government relations lawyers. We spent the day looking at different contracts, which although opaque, was still very interesting. One of the parts of his job is examining the contracts they send to clients vs. the versions they send back signed to insure there are no discrepancies, a job which I was able to help out in (despite my 0 years of law school). I managed to uncover that SAS clients often use a different formatting method that led to certain words being pushed to different lines than the original copy. The lawyer assured me it wasn’t a massive conspiracy to cheat SAS out of hard earned cash, but I’m still suspicious. (I didn’t grab any pictures of the contracts for security reasons, but I’ve added a colorized re-creation for reference.)
The rest of the day was with a lawyer who does government lobbying for SAS which was very cool. He took me on my first real tour of the facility. My favorite place was the video creation facility where they create all of SAS’s internal videos. I took a picture of one of their custom studios. It was a very cool day.
Picture refrences:
http://malloryminute.com/paper-paper-everywhere/