Unofficially, only company officers were to sign such important contracts. That would have taken forever and probably killed the financing entirely. Pavlo managed to blow past his misgivings by reminding himself that everyone at MCI was on the make. Sales sneaked deadbeats onto the network. Finance wrote worthless promissory notes. Accounting created the bookkeeping to hide MCI’s past-due balances. The company credo seemed to be, “Better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.”
