Question about a weird trick that actually got my manager to approve a project

After getting a 'no' three times, I printed the proposal on bright green paper and left it on his desk, and he signed it the next day without a single change, so has anyone else had a bizarre physical object hack actually work?

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scott.harper1mo ago

That green paper trick is smart, it forces them to actually look at it instead of just another white sheet in the pile.

gray_patel1mo ago

Remember that trick with colored paper? My buddy used bright orange for his resume and got three callbacks in a week, which never happened before. It's like @scott.harper said, it just cuts through the noise. Sometimes a simple change makes all the difference.