Still no contract

So I went to Human Resources on Monday to sign my short-term contract, but the VP of HR didn't have a copy of it.  The secretary to the VP of Engineering had a copy, but the VP hadn't signed it before leaving the country for two weeks.  She was going to take an image of the VP's signature and electronically add it to the contract, but the contract is in PDF format and she didn't have a licensed copy of Acrobat that permits alterations.  (I avoided making the obvious comment about Free Software.)  On Tuesday the IT department *still* hadn't installed a paid copy of Acrobat on her machine.  I'm not in the office today, so for tomorrow's meeting with my lawyer the contract remains unsigned and the period of time covered by the contract will be half over.

I'm not too worried about the legalities of this.  The VP emailed me a contract, I emailed an acceptance.  The Company has been allowing me to work in its offices this week.  I think that makes them legally bound to the yet-unsigned contract.  This issue came up last year when we had a contractor whose contract-renewal was delayed by administrivia.  We were told not to worry because the Company was required by law to pay him for any day where it allowed him to access the building.

For those of you keeping track, yes tomorrow is פסח, a "major Jewish holiday" on which work is supposed to be prohibited, but I'll be visiting my lawyer anyway.  Consider it my assertion of Free Will or something like that.