Of course, your attitude is very consistent with a chip-on-the-shoulder-feminist, and these sorts of power structures are heaven on earth for such, so it's not surprising you'd look at it that way.
I'm a feminist. That's true, however I'm far more supportive of men than the majority of feminists out there.
If you really want to help out, why don't you go pop out some babies so we don't need to have our asses wiped by robot in 40 years time like the Japanese?
And you wonder why some of us might have a "chip on our shoulder".
don't you feel the slightest bit of hostility from your employer?
Only if you get emotional about it. You just have to remember it's business, black and white, nothing personal. They set the loveless tone, so in this age no corporation deserves your loyalty. Always walk on the first better offer--unless it's a severe violation of your non-compete of course.
Non-competes hinging on very specific products or business functions make sense to me. If you develop a cutting edge system, let's say XYZ, they don't want you jumping next door for the purpose of recreating the system after they've invested a large amount of time and cash. When you build a system, you possess vital information regarding development and domain specific solutions. You can often build the system much faster and much better the second time around. The worst position for a business to be in is spending more for a first generation, inferior system, while the competitor spends less and gets second generation.
Umm well OK. You're right about Chinese. My fault was asking my Chinese significant other... apparently she hadn't understand my question when I asked her, so she said it was. Although, Chinese does get very detailed when it comes to nouns describing family relationships regarding elder, younger, male, female, in-law, etc.
Actually, I once successfully challenged a potential employer about an agreement like this. I carefully and calmly explained to their legal department why I thought the agreement was unreasonable and we were able work things out from there.
My employers would work it out too, however only if they felt you were:
too highly skilled to lose
willing to walk away from the job offer
have some prestige or notoriety of sorts
A good developer won't have those qualities. A great developer with money in the bank might...
Given all that, you still had to sign a non-compete, abridged or not, even if you were the newly hired hot shot CEO or the lowly office assistant.
but if you really prefer to sign away your freedoms than to stay unemployed for a couple of months, then that explains why the US is so screwed up.
Anyway. I must believe you don't work in USA then, because I've never seen an IT job without a non-compete requirement in the last 13 years of my career.
The only difference between this non-compete and non-competes I've signed is their claim of ownership on new products developed after termination, however I've seen non-competes laying claim on very general things from everything created after hours to things created on your personal desktop.
First, it's a bullshit scare tactic. Second, signing doesn't mean you're signing your freedoms away. Here, if a contract violates the law, it's unenforceable regardless of your signature. And third, you really have no choice but to sign if you plan to work in USA. I suppose you could find a very small IT company that doesn't push non-competes, but it'll be hard to find that. You won't be unemployed for a "couple of months", you'll be unemployed for YEARS with that sort of search criteria.
If they state nothing, then take a copy home and do not sign it. When, later, they ask you for the signed copy, inform them that you never signed it and are not getting anything from the signing of it. They are free to fire you, however you *will* take this to the unemployment office to get full compensation as it is illegal to your employer has fired you for an outright illegal reason.
Nobody wants to fight that fight. Most employees with families need to know that paycheck will keep coming, so they won't do anything to jeopardize that. The reality is many of these contracts are unreasonable and would be seen as such by a judge, so it's easier to sign and worry about the consequences later. Most of the time there are no consequences, but you can always take precautions to minimize the chance. Things like making sure your next employer is not a direct competitor or not telling co-workers where you're going. Make-up a story and lie. They generally won't question you too much if your lie sounds plausible. The less your current employer knows, the lower the chance of being pursued.
I know of 3 people my last employer sued, but to be honest, they deserved to get sued. They went to work for highly visible competitors who had exactly the same type of product (and they were sales people, not developers). One even tried to take his client list with him. Bad idea.
They're paying you to come up with cool, neat, innovative tech. If you come up with something really sweet, they don't want you to leave, start your own company and get rich.
That's one of the reasons I never offered my best ideas to my last employer. What's the point. Give them your idea and get nothing in return except for a lousy pat on the back. Meanwhile executive management profits heavily. I've seen it happen. You might as well just punch the clock and only work on your task list. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Never give up an idea unless you will own a percentage, otherwise keep them to yourself and try to implement them at home in secret, and then launch your website/product/business the minute your non-compete expires.
Just curious which "argument" will win. Since college students are technically children (youngins still dependent on parents), "Think of the children!" could apply here given the inevitable sad sob stories due to spring up detailing poverty stricken students losing their college funding and forced to go back to work at McDonald's for life.
Forcing universities to police crimes they don't commit and cannot stop or pay a subscription fee ($$$$) sounds an awful lot like blackmail (mafia). In the end, all universities will end up just paying the subscription due to the ever present threat of a student simply tunneling peer-to-peer traffic through standard web protocols.
Tying funding to regulation completely unrelated to the industry is yet another bad precedent (as well as punishing the innocent along with the guilty as others mentioned).
first the typical American is incredibly stupid. This will easily confuse a huge number of people, just like yield signs and roundabouts.
Second the level of education and critical thinking with typical Americans is so low they will not notice details but make decisions based on general shape and color. This causes confusion in all walks of american life. finding the car in a parking lot, picking your own kid out of a lineup. voting for president....
Think of Americans as retarded 3 year old children. now you get the idea how this product will cause mass confusion and for them to be pulled off the store shelves and a public uproar over them.
Not only that, but Costco's products (Kirkland) are superior over Sam's Club products. And Costco seems to sell more high end food products.
Walmart's stuff is pretty cheap, but they don't have the cheapest prices. I frequently find identical brands cheaper at Walgreens whenever they have a sale (which is every week). Pretty pathetic considering Walmart's sales volume is far greater.
With food, if you compare Walmart to ALDI, ALDI is far better than Walmart. Most of ALDI's store brands are pretty good. I've tried many of them and only found a handful of "not-so-good" ones. I believe ALDI's pay scale is a bit higher than Walmart's as well.
And then there's produce. Costco's produce is generally very fresh. Walmart's Neighborhood Market is hit or miss.
Assuming that it's a deliberate troll attempt and wasting mod points that could have been used to promote the responses that corrected it, in my mind, says more about the moderator who did this than about the AC who was factually wrong (for whatever reason)...
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Because I have noticed a decline in the quality of judgment calls made by some moderators (certainly not all and not most of them) and it tends to express itself in this way...
There are more trolls moderating... than there are posting. Just keep that in mind. No-nonsense honest bare-naked opinions are not rewarded here, but compliance to the homogenized baseline is.
If you're not pissing people off, you're not making any progress.
It is scary that you are an 'adult' with children.
Why? because I shop? because I have a family and I get out? Jesus. Get a grip on reality. Some of you slashdotters are real psychos truly disconnected from reality as well as relationships. No wonder most of you fail to reproduce.
Cut the guy some slack! He's getting 2% BACK on purchases that are marked up 5% on a card that charges 15% APR.
Oh my lord you people are stupid.
The card is not a credit card. It's a membership card.
Costco is a buy in bulk type of store. Bulk = cheaper per unit. I don't buy unless it's cheaper per unit. For the same brand Costco is cheaper than grocery stores around 90-95% of the time.
I generally wait to buy certain items until the coupon comes out, and I'll buy 5 to 10.
So, I'm getting 2% cash back on items that are cheaper than items in a typical grocery store. The only time the grocery store is cheaper is when there's a buy 1 get 1 free deal or a rebate.
Is this a lame attempt to pat yourself on the back as being wealthy? I don't remember anyone asking you about your spending habits, but you are answering them.
LOL. You're a moron. Add groceries up for a family for a year and see what it totals to. You are obviously single and childless.
$125*52 = $6,500 + $3,200 plasma = $9,700
And, that doesn't include books, software, clothing, alcohol, etc, so it'd be somewhere between $10,000 to $11,000.
New, unopened shrink-wrapped box from Costco. I get home and there's no game inside. Just the manual.
When I went to return it, they had to get the manager and conferred in the manager's office for a few minutes before coming out to give me a refund. I'm pretty sure spending over $10,000 in the past year had something to do with getting my refund. (Yes, I have the 2% cash back executive card. And yes, it was all from personal purchases.)
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It was as terrible as I thought. Didn't work out for me. It sucked.
And you wonder why some of us might have a "chip on our shoulder".
Why not just call them by their name (or profile name)? Mine is lena or lena_10326. Hello.
I wasn't personally offended. I was just irritated. It's not an easy task to offend me.
Non-competes hinging on very specific products or business functions make sense to me. If you develop a cutting edge system, let's say XYZ, they don't want you jumping next door for the purpose of recreating the system after they've invested a large amount of time and cash. When you build a system, you possess vital information regarding development and domain specific solutions. You can often build the system much faster and much better the second time around. The worst position for a business to be in is spending more for a first generation, inferior system, while the competitor spends less and gets second generation.
Umm well OK. You're right about Chinese. My fault was asking my Chinese significant other... apparently she hadn't understand my question when I asked her, so she said it was. Although, Chinese does get very detailed when it comes to nouns describing family relationships regarding elder, younger, male, female, in-law, etc.
- too highly skilled to lose
- willing to walk away from the job offer
- have some prestige or notoriety of sorts
A good developer won't have those qualities. A great developer with money in the bank might...Given all that, you still had to sign a non-compete, abridged or not, even if you were the newly hired hot shot CEO or the lowly office assistant.
I have no idea why you brought that up. Quite an unexpected interpretation, imo. My profile name is generally a good indicator of gender.
By the way, English is gender neutral, unlike languages like German or Chinese. In English, it's convention that's gender oriented--not grammar.
Anyway. I must believe you don't work in USA then, because I've never seen an IT job without a non-compete requirement in the last 13 years of my career.
The only difference between this non-compete and non-competes I've signed is their claim of ownership on new products developed after termination, however I've seen non-competes laying claim on very general things from everything created after hours to things created on your personal desktop.
First, it's a bullshit scare tactic. Second, signing doesn't mean you're signing your freedoms away. Here, if a contract violates the law, it's unenforceable regardless of your signature. And third, you really have no choice but to sign if you plan to work in USA. I suppose you could find a very small IT company that doesn't push non-competes, but it'll be hard to find that. You won't be unemployed for a "couple of months", you'll be unemployed for YEARS with that sort of search criteria.
I know of 3 people my last employer sued, but to be honest, they deserved to get sued. They went to work for highly visible competitors who had exactly the same type of product (and they were sales people, not developers). One even tried to take his client list with him. Bad idea.
Never give up an idea unless you will own a percentage, otherwise keep them to yourself and try to implement them at home in secret, and then launch your website/product/business the minute your non-compete expires.
Just curious which "argument" will win. Since college students are technically children (youngins still dependent on parents), "Think of the children!" could apply here given the inevitable sad sob stories due to spring up detailing poverty stricken students losing their college funding and forced to go back to work at McDonald's for life.
Not universities.
Forcing universities to police crimes they don't commit and cannot stop or pay a subscription fee ($$$$) sounds an awful lot like blackmail (mafia). In the end, all universities will end up just paying the subscription due to the ever present threat of a student simply tunneling peer-to-peer traffic through standard web protocols.
Tying funding to regulation completely unrelated to the industry is yet another bad precedent (as well as punishing the innocent along with the guilty as others mentioned).
Not only that, but Costco's products (Kirkland) are superior over Sam's Club products. And Costco seems to sell more high end food products.
Walmart's stuff is pretty cheap, but they don't have the cheapest prices. I frequently find identical brands cheaper at Walgreens whenever they have a sale (which is every week). Pretty pathetic considering Walmart's sales volume is far greater.
With food, if you compare Walmart to ALDI, ALDI is far better than Walmart. Most of ALDI's store brands are pretty good. I've tried many of them and only found a handful of "not-so-good" ones. I believe ALDI's pay scale is a bit higher than Walmart's as well.
And then there's produce. Costco's produce is generally very fresh. Walmart's Neighborhood Market is hit or miss.
There are more trolls moderating... than there are posting. Just keep that in mind. No-nonsense honest bare-naked opinions are not rewarded here, but compliance to the homogenized baseline is.
If you're not pissing people off, you're not making any progress.
- The card is not a credit card. It's a membership card.
- Costco is a buy in bulk type of store. Bulk = cheaper per unit. I don't buy unless it's cheaper per unit. For the same brand Costco is cheaper than grocery stores around 90-95% of the time.
- I generally wait to buy certain items until the coupon comes out, and I'll buy 5 to 10.
So, I'm getting 2% cash back on items that are cheaper than items in a typical grocery store. The only time the grocery store is cheaper is when there's a buy 1 get 1 free deal or a rebate.$125*52 = $6,500 + $3,200 plasma = $9,700
And, that doesn't include books, software, clothing, alcohol, etc, so it'd be somewhere between $10,000 to $11,000.
You are just a jealous little man.
New, unopened shrink-wrapped box from Costco. I get home and there's no game inside. Just the manual.
When I went to return it, they had to get the manager and conferred in the manager's office for a few minutes before coming out to give me a refund. I'm pretty sure spending over $10,000 in the past year had something to do with getting my refund. (Yes, I have the 2% cash back executive card. And yes, it was all from personal purchases.)