paperwork vs. bad sex

so i'm working on these two requests this morning at work.

it's two different guys who want to remove a restriction that will allow them to sell their stock in this company, but the catch is, you can't be at all affiliated with the company to do this. so i get the request in this morning for these two guys and the first one says "CEO" and the other one says "Director". these two guys RUN the company. there is absolutely no way in hell they're getting this restriction removed.

but because of the paperwork rules, i have to go through all the motions of printing out all these documents, requesting certificates, setting up a folder, calling lawyers... instead of just e-mailing them and being like "are you serious? this is definitely not happening."

it's like bad sex in an unhappy marriage.

i'm going through the motions, my heart's not really in it, and in the end i know it will only end in failure and rejection. but here i am, fumbling my way through the process, knowing that it is all a giant waste of time. no one's getting off.

it's a little early in the morning for bad sex metaphors in relation to my temp job, but there it is. welcome to my paperwork hell.