Chapter 14 Hypothetical Case 4 Rachel Siddons, an architect, has been in negotiations with Dorland Architects for several weeks for a job. At long last, she receives a contract in the mail. The terms of the contract aren't as ideal as she would have liked, but she decides to accept the offer. * The contract states that Siddons must respond by mail within five days. She was on vacation when the contract arrived, so she is unsure when it actually arrived. To be safe, she responds via email and agrees to the contract terms. The next week, Siddons resigns from her position at her current firm and then reaches out to Quinn Bigos, the vice president of human resources at Dorland, to discuss a start date. To her shock and surprise, Bigos tells her that because she did not respond via the required method, the offer is null and void and the job has been given to another candidate. Is Bigos right? Is the offer void because Siddons didn't respond via the manner in which the contract specified