Hey, Kind person, Boy do I have work for you...
I got all the work in the world for you...
It's all well and good that you are a "kind person".......
"Kind" in this case means kind of stupid...
This guy waa/is real stupid. In the mid 1980's I signed a contract like this (Texas Instruments). The contract actually specified that they owned everything. I was really annoyed by thisa in retrospective. The next position I had I was presented with pretty much the same TURD of a contract. As I recall, it s purpose was to assure the "Free Exchange of Ideas amongst employees..." and that it covered me 24 hours per day. I pointed out to them that I wasn't paid for 24 hours each day, they (management replied) that they wouldn't "really" enforce the agreement (whatever this meant). I replied that I'd be happy to sign any agreement like this that allowed for the free exchange of ideas, but that they should be prepared to exchange all references to me with the company and all references to the company with references to me, oh and that I wouldn't "really enforce the agreement. They asked what areas I already had "ideas" in, and that they could exclude those. I told them they couild supply me with a list of areas that they were interested in... I also told them that I would start keeping a log of "ideas" and if they wanted "ownership" they would have to pay me for my "thinking time" whether in the office or not, oh and that alot of stuff comes to me in dreams... They said, "You know, we really don't need an agreement like this with you..." ANd I continued to work ther and FREELY contributed ideas which were of use to the company
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Hey, Kind person, Boy do I have work for you... I got all the work in the world for you... It's all well and good that you are a "kind person"... .. ..
"Kind" in this case means kind of stupid...
This guy waa/is real stupid.
In the mid 1980's I signed a contract like this (Texas Instruments). The contract actually specified that they owned everything. I was really annoyed by thisa in retrospective. The next position I had I was presented with pretty much the same TURD of a contract. As I recall, it s purpose was to assure the "Free Exchange of Ideas amongst employees..." and that it covered me 24 hours per day. I pointed out to them that I wasn't paid for 24 hours each day, they (management replied) that they wouldn't "really" enforce the agreement (whatever this meant). I replied that I'd be happy to sign any agreement like this that allowed for the free exchange of ideas, but that they should be prepared to exchange all references to me with the company and all references to the company with references to me, oh and that I wouldn't "really enforce the agreement.
They asked what areas I already had "ideas" in, and that they could exclude those. I told them they couild supply me with a list of areas that they were interested in...
I also told them that I would start keeping a log of "ideas" and if they wanted "ownership" they would have to pay me for my "thinking time" whether in the office or not, oh and that alot of stuff comes to me in dreams...
They said, "You know, we really don't need an agreement like this with you..."
ANd I continued to work ther and FREELY contributed ideas which were of use to the company