“We can only pay you 50% of your bid, we need the job done within 2 days of now, and we will need an insurance cert and W9.”
“By the way, those last two forms? Actually 9 pages of other paperwork all together, which must be submitted and approved before you start the work tomorrow.”
Probably gonna walk from this one. (Not before I call the department that wants all this paperwork and have them walk me through it) XD