>Most of the time, outside the utopian heaven that is Silicon Valley, tech pros are employed "at will" The contract I signed is one of at-will employment. I do

>Most of the time, outside the utopian heaven that is Silicon Valley, tech pros are employed "at will" The contract I signed is one of at-will employment. I don't consider the terms mutually exclusive. I don't work in Silicon Valley (neither technically or conceptually) but even there I expect approximately everybody is at-will employed. >unilaterally signed IANAL but generally the employer needs your signature on the employment agreement/contract, otherwise IP assignment clauses and anything else in the document are not going to stand up in court. >The worst they can do is fire you Your employer can do considerably worse that just fire you. [1] [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Malyshev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Malyshev [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov