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Modifying Employment Agreements?
An anonymous reader asks: "I am starting a new job, after months of unemployment. While out of work, I started a technology related business. I do not believe there is a conflict in the services provided by this business and the job I am taking.
As has been standard with previous employers, I have been asked to sign an agreement that states in part that I am to disclose to the company anything that I create wether or not during company time, and wether or not it relates to the company.
I also must agree that these same creations or inventions become the sole property of the company. I would like to change the wording to only include those creations, inventions and other Intellectual Property that is the direct result of work performed for the company, involved use of company property, and/or was created or invented during paid hours spent working for the company.
What success or failure have other Slashdot readers had when dealing with wide reaching employment agreements such as this? How did you approach management with your modifications?"
"...anything that I create wether or not during company time, and wether or not it relates..."
What jackass hired a mental midgit like you who is unable to spell a simple word like "whether"? Companies must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel to be hiring idiots like you. No wonder you were unemployed for months!
You should skip the job, move back into your parents' house and write open sores software with copyright assigned to FSF.
Then such questions would not trouble you.
I can narrow it down to a few choices pretty quick. I'll pull out the local phone book here...
Here we go, there's either: The law firm whose ad takes up the entire back cover of the phone book; The law firm whose ad takes up 1/3 of the front cover of the phone book; or, The law firm whose ad takes up 80% of the spine of the phone book.
That's a good start, and I didn't even need to open the book!
Tinkering with this agreement could put you in a bad light with the new bosses.
Oh no! Not thaaaaat! Not a "bad light with the new bosses!" Whatever shall we doooooooo?!?!?!? I wouldn't let them take a giant shit all over me! Now they don't like me. I should have let them own the copyright on my grocery lists so I can work in a gloomy gray cubicle all day until everyone is laid off!
I know! Maybe if I crawl on the floor and eat shit, give up every last shred of dignity and beg cry and wail and sign anything they want, they'll hire me. Wouldn't that be great?
would have left later for pursuing breach of contract claims against you at a later time.
LOL
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
And if you are a good employee, you can too.
Oh, and chalk up another user for your foe list.
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"anything that I create wether or not during company time, and wether or not it relates"
Ah- it all makes sense now. You are sitting around waiting for somebody to wipe your butt for you. Guess what? If you would stop complaining about how the "system" has you pinned down, you might realize that YOU are your biggest limitation. Instead of waiting for other people to take care of you, why don't you make something happen for yourself? People start successful businesses all the time. Thats what makes this country great. If you wait for other people to make things happen for you, you will be waiting a looooong time.