They are forcing you sign the NC contract under duress and that won't hold up in courts.
Perhaps, but even if it doesn't hold up in court, that's still likely thousands of dollars in legal fees that you're going to have to spend to find that out. You may or may not be able to recover it. To me, it's better to just not agree to it to begin with. If the employer wants me bad enough, they'll buckle. If not, without a separate sizable non-compete bonus to compensate for the headaches, it's not worth the risk.
I went through this many years back when my employer decided that they wanted to have everyone sign a new employee agreement that included a non-compete. I and one other guy redlined the appropriate parts, signed and dated it, and returned it. Of course management didn't like that, and significant pressure was applied to get us to sign the unmodified agreement over the next couple of weeks. Eventually the company relented and exempted us from the agreement. Lots of my co-workers were pissed because they realized they could have done the same instead of just accepting what the company dumped on them.
Actually, sometimes that's exactly what you need to do. A problem that I've often encountered is that someone is let go because there's not a current project to put them on, but that person has years of institutional knowledge that would be valuable on future projects. It's silly to let a valuable employee go because they're temporarily idle for a couple of months, when it takes years for new people to relearn what that person already knew, with the attendant expensive failures along with the way due to the new folks not knowing that a given course of action has been tried before and failed. It's particularly true in the defense-related industries, when the employee has a security clearance - not only do you lose that knowledge, you end up spending tens of thousands of dollars to get a new employee cleared, while they have to wait a year or more or so for their clearance to be processed before they can start contributing to the effort they were hired for.
This is remarkably untrue at other wavelengths, where light is dramatically more dangerous to the eye than it is to the skin.
For sure. You can let an unfocused 100 watt Nd:YAG beam fall on your hand and you might feel a tiny bit of warmth. Letting that same beam hit you in the eyes is a different story.
Depends on the wavelength of the laser. A Nd:YAG is much more likely to cause retinal damage than a CO2 of the same power, since your cornea and lens will pass 1064 nm IR easily, but are much more opaque to 10600 nm, so you'll feel the heating/burning and blink or otherwise get out of the beam before it can do much (if any) damage to the retina. Of course, if it's a 5 MW steel cutter, you're just well and truly screwed.
The first result doesn't have both search terms in the content, but it does in the URL so I'll consider it correct. Further down, there are matches for "RB 800" that don't have "RB-800" in either the content or the URL, though. Just the same, thanks for the tip. The problem appears to remain, however, that Google does "intelligent matching", which is exactly what is *not* needed sometimes.
Just because Google documents it that way doesn't mean it actually works. I just searched for "ibanez and rb-800", and it wasn't until the third result that it actually matched.
I don't think there is a legal obligation to tell the whole truth, in fact the obligation on that topic is almost to run the other way, there are things he is definitely allowed, and definitely should not share with shareholders.
For sure. It's kinda like a few years back when Blizzard started shedding World of Warcraft subscribers like autumn leaves - they chose to begin reporting monthly active users instead of the number of paid subscriptions, conveniently omitting the fact that the game allows people to pay for their subscription with in-game currency instead of actual money. Where they do report revenue from subscriptions, they bundle that with web store sales and other stuff as "subscription, licensing, and other revenues". It strongly suggests an attempt to hide falling subscription numbers, given their previous transparency, but it's all completely legal.
Everyone is racing to have the thinnest phone and slightest bezel and they're willing to sacrifice functionality to do it.
They're also willing to sacrifice their own damned aesthetic - nothing makes a thin phone more appealing than needing bulky dongles hanging off of it in order for it to work as needed.
The individual parks have plenty of engineers that work under the given park's budget, but they're not called Imagineers unless they work for Imagineering itself.
Similarly, project engineers are called PEs where I work, but no one there mistakes that title for a certified Professional Engineer that is required to sign off on something like a multi-hundred-million dollar satellite design. We have those kinds of engineers too, and the difference is made crystal clear when it actually matters.
I'm a software engineer, and I've been paid to perform as such by legitimate companies for more than 30 years. Hence, the term "professional engineer" is wholly accurate in describing me, although I wouldn't use that as a title. Having said that, the guy's not a traffic engineer and it seems like his use of the term "engineer" was intended as an unnecessary appeal to authority in an otherwise solid argument.
Not all of them. There's a separate division of Disney called "Walt Disney Imagineering" that deals with R&D stuff like ride design, theming, and such where the engineering staff uses the title "Imagineer", but the rank and file engineers that work for Disney on a given web site, financial system, or other mundane engineering task doesn't get to use the title.
Moving is expensive even if you don't have 20 years' worth of stuff. For a lot of places, you'll need a security deposit, first month's rent, possibly last month's rent, and deposits for utilities and such in addition to the actual expenses related to the move itself (truck, packing materials, etc.). You might get your security deposit back if you took care of your current place, but I've fought with more than one landlord about deductions even though the place was exactly as I received it. You need to have all of that money up front, and preferably a job lined up wherever it is you want to go. You also need to have the time to do it, which is time that you're not working/getting paid. Then on top of that, if the new job pays in arrears, you might need a couple of weeks' worth of money to live off of until the first paycheck comes in. For a lot of us, this isn't too much of a problem, but there are a lot of people that just don't have that kind of cash on-hand.
Problem is that welding the same fucking thing day in, day out, or plumbing, or residential electric can get boring as shit for an intelligent person after a few weeks to months.
So can web development, writing yet another database abstraction layer, designing yet another power supply, or any of the other tedious work that those of us in the tech industry find ourselves doing for a paycheck.
Great, now they're going to have to re-run the study, taking into account the individual's diet and medications before strapping on the backpack/parachute.
If you're totally sacrificing quality of life trying to get just a little more money, you're really missing out.
No argument there, but one should also bear in mind that they money you make and save *now* is worth more than what you'll make later in life due to the magic of compound interest and returns on investment. As with so many things in life, finding a good balance between money and a decent work environment is important.
The rest... don't, and remain at a mid-career job title their whole career. At least, I've never worked any place where half the engineers were senior.
On the other hand, my current position is at a place where there are a lot of engineering disciplines represented (software, aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and even chemical and metallurgical Ph.D.s are quite common), but most of the engineers prefer to stay at their senior-level positions instead of going into management because they're true geeks and like tinkering with stuff rather than being in meetings all the time - we have an official "individual contributor" career track in addition to "management". Our yearly interns are usually quite sharp as well, and tend to migrate towards the same kind of career path. I also work with a lot guys that have been with the company upwards of 40 years.
Our local DSLAM is in a locked cabinet, with the fiber to it running underground. I suspect it's a problem with the local loop (also underground), but given that this is the same AT&T that cut my service off by removing the modem's MAC address from the ACL, and took a week to figure it out, I'm not putting a lot of faith in their ability to fix it.
This whole area is technologically challenged. A couple of years ago, after bugging the power company repeatedly about constant outages, they found that the lines from the transformer were shot. So, because they apparently couldn't run down to Home Depot and rent a Ditch Witch, they left the new cabling from the transformer pedestal strung 70' across my yard to the meter, with some plastic taped around the meter and little pink flags along the cable route. It was like that for weeks until they could get a trencher out there and got it buried. Still have the photos. I had to call the yard guy and tell him not to mow until it was fixed 'cause I didn't want a dead yard guy outside.
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They are forcing you sign the NC contract under duress and that won't hold up in courts.
Perhaps, but even if it doesn't hold up in court, that's still likely thousands of dollars in legal fees that you're going to have to spend to find that out. You may or may not be able to recover it. To me, it's better to just not agree to it to begin with. If the employer wants me bad enough, they'll buckle. If not, without a separate sizable non-compete bonus to compensate for the headaches, it's not worth the risk.
I went through this many years back when my employer decided that they wanted to have everyone sign a new employee agreement that included a non-compete. I and one other guy redlined the appropriate parts, signed and dated it, and returned it. Of course management didn't like that, and significant pressure was applied to get us to sign the unmodified agreement over the next couple of weeks. Eventually the company relented and exempted us from the agreement. Lots of my co-workers were pissed because they realized they could have done the same instead of just accepting what the company dumped on them.
Replying to myself - yes, I know the company's name is Space Exploration Technologies.
Or just SpaceEx.
Can't pay people to stand around and wait.
Actually, sometimes that's exactly what you need to do. A problem that I've often encountered is that someone is let go because there's not a current project to put them on, but that person has years of institutional knowledge that would be valuable on future projects. It's silly to let a valuable employee go because they're temporarily idle for a couple of months, when it takes years for new people to relearn what that person already knew, with the attendant expensive failures along with the way due to the new folks not knowing that a given course of action has been tried before and failed. It's particularly true in the defense-related industries, when the employee has a security clearance - not only do you lose that knowledge, you end up spending tens of thousands of dollars to get a new employee cleared, while they have to wait a year or more or so for their clearance to be processed before they can start contributing to the effort they were hired for.
This is remarkably untrue at other wavelengths, where light is dramatically more dangerous to the eye than it is to the skin.
For sure. You can let an unfocused 100 watt Nd:YAG beam fall on your hand and you might feel a tiny bit of warmth. Letting that same beam hit you in the eyes is a different story.
Depends on the wavelength of the laser. A Nd:YAG is much more likely to cause retinal damage than a CO2 of the same power, since your cornea and lens will pass 1064 nm IR easily, but are much more opaque to 10600 nm, so you'll feel the heating/burning and blink or otherwise get out of the beam before it can do much (if any) damage to the retina. Of course, if it's a 5 MW steel cutter, you're just well and truly screwed.
The first result doesn't have both search terms in the content, but it does in the URL so I'll consider it correct. Further down, there are matches for "RB 800" that don't have "RB-800" in either the content or the URL, though. Just the same, thanks for the tip. The problem appears to remain, however, that Google does "intelligent matching", which is exactly what is *not* needed sometimes.
Show me a psychiatrist or other mental health professional that has successfully treated a narcissist.
Just because Google documents it that way doesn't mean it actually works. I just searched for "ibanez and rb-800", and it wasn't until the third result that it actually matched.
Show, don't tell.
I don't think there is a legal obligation to tell the whole truth, in fact the obligation on that topic is almost to run the other way, there are things he is definitely allowed, and definitely should not share with shareholders.
For sure. It's kinda like a few years back when Blizzard started shedding World of Warcraft subscribers like autumn leaves - they chose to begin reporting monthly active users instead of the number of paid subscriptions, conveniently omitting the fact that the game allows people to pay for their subscription with in-game currency instead of actual money. Where they do report revenue from subscriptions, they bundle that with web store sales and other stuff as "subscription, licensing, and other revenues". It strongly suggests an attempt to hide falling subscription numbers, given their previous transparency, but it's all completely legal.
Everyone is racing to have the thinnest phone and slightest bezel and they're willing to sacrifice functionality to do it.
They're also willing to sacrifice their own damned aesthetic - nothing makes a thin phone more appealing than needing bulky dongles hanging off of it in order for it to work as needed.
You do NOT need a headphone jack PERIOD. Why is that so hard for you to grasp?
Different people have different needs and wants. Why is that so hard for Apple to grasp?
The individual parks have plenty of engineers that work under the given park's budget, but they're not called Imagineers unless they work for Imagineering itself.
Similarly, project engineers are called PEs where I work, but no one there mistakes that title for a certified Professional Engineer that is required to sign off on something like a multi-hundred-million dollar satellite design. We have those kinds of engineers too, and the difference is made crystal clear when it actually matters.
I'm a software engineer, and I've been paid to perform as such by legitimate companies for more than 30 years. Hence, the term "professional engineer" is wholly accurate in describing me, although I wouldn't use that as a title. Having said that, the guy's not a traffic engineer and it seems like his use of the term "engineer" was intended as an unnecessary appeal to authority in an otherwise solid argument.
Not all of them. There's a separate division of Disney called "Walt Disney Imagineering" that deals with R&D stuff like ride design, theming, and such where the engineering staff uses the title "Imagineer", but the rank and file engineers that work for Disney on a given web site, financial system, or other mundane engineering task doesn't get to use the title.
Moving is expensive even if you don't have 20 years' worth of stuff. For a lot of places, you'll need a security deposit, first month's rent, possibly last month's rent, and deposits for utilities and such in addition to the actual expenses related to the move itself (truck, packing materials, etc.). You might get your security deposit back if you took care of your current place, but I've fought with more than one landlord about deductions even though the place was exactly as I received it. You need to have all of that money up front, and preferably a job lined up wherever it is you want to go. You also need to have the time to do it, which is time that you're not working/getting paid. Then on top of that, if the new job pays in arrears, you might need a couple of weeks' worth of money to live off of until the first paycheck comes in. For a lot of us, this isn't too much of a problem, but there are a lot of people that just don't have that kind of cash on-hand.
Problem is that welding the same fucking thing day in, day out, or plumbing, or residential electric can get boring as shit for an intelligent person after a few weeks to months.
So can web development, writing yet another database abstraction layer, designing yet another power supply, or any of the other tedious work that those of us in the tech industry find ourselves doing for a paycheck.
Also, when was the last time you saw an electrician (or plumber, or carpenter, or other tradesman) get his job sent overseas?
Great, now they're going to have to re-run the study, taking into account the individual's diet and medications before strapping on the backpack/parachute.
The measurement is actually stated to a resolution of 1/16" inch. The fractional part is exactly 11/16.
It's not ludicrous precision - it's exactly 6-11/16" Sixteenths of an inch are still widely used in measurements in the U.S.
If you're totally sacrificing quality of life trying to get just a little more money, you're really missing out.
No argument there, but one should also bear in mind that they money you make and save *now* is worth more than what you'll make later in life due to the magic of compound interest and returns on investment. As with so many things in life, finding a good balance between money and a decent work environment is important.
The rest ... don't, and remain at a mid-career job title their whole career. At least, I've never worked any place where half the engineers were senior.
On the other hand, my current position is at a place where there are a lot of engineering disciplines represented (software, aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and even chemical and metallurgical Ph.D.s are quite common), but most of the engineers prefer to stay at their senior-level positions instead of going into management because they're true geeks and like tinkering with stuff rather than being in meetings all the time - we have an official "individual contributor" career track in addition to "management". Our yearly interns are usually quite sharp as well, and tend to migrate towards the same kind of career path. I also work with a lot guys that have been with the company upwards of 40 years.
Our local DSLAM is in a locked cabinet, with the fiber to it running underground. I suspect it's a problem with the local loop (also underground), but given that this is the same AT&T that cut my service off by removing the modem's MAC address from the ACL, and took a week to figure it out, I'm not putting a lot of faith in their ability to fix it.
This whole area is technologically challenged. A couple of years ago, after bugging the power company repeatedly about constant outages, they found that the lines from the transformer were shot. So, because they apparently couldn't run down to Home Depot and rent a Ditch Witch, they left the new cabling from the transformer pedestal strung 70' across my yard to the meter, with some plastic taped around the meter and little pink flags along the cable route. It was like that for weeks until they could get a trencher out there and got it buried. Still have the photos. I had to call the yard guy and tell him not to mow until it was fixed 'cause I didn't want a dead yard guy outside.