• No_Eponym@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        This is why the only hand jestures I use in real life are 🤘🤙and 🖕… Although now I’m wondering if the last one would be solicitation? Or consent?

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      Yeah, but I think it was a miscommunication. The contract was sent over text with “please confirm the contract”, but he was expecting a fax to sign and the thumbs up was a confirmation that he would sign it once he got it. Maybe I don’t know enough but I do kinda have to side with the farmer on this one.

      Edit: ok I read a bit more, maybe not as this article mentions that they’ve previously confirmed messages over text. Idk

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    1 year ago

    That seems like the correct ruling. Any reasonable person would think that a thumbs up emoji equates to “yes”, “good”, “affirmative” or any other word of agreement. Trying to get out of a contract because you used an emoji is a complete dick move.

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    1 year ago

    This is what I don’t like about Teams on my android phone. There is no “Mark Read” button on the notification. It’s either reply or like or open the app.

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    What if he had texted “👍🤣🤣🤣” or “👍 jk”? Or if the snarky thumbs-up was implied by the texter? There’s a heck of a lot of room for ambiguity.