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It's still the case for me, I am going to negotiate that the terms are changed. It's ridiculous. I understand if the product I'm working on is a conflict of int
by rawb92 9y ago
It's still the case for me, I am going to negotiate that the terms are changed. It's ridiculous. I understand if the product I'm working on is a conflict of interest, but if it's nothing related to my current employers field why should they own it?
- fred_is_fred 9y agoFor negotiating, if it's a big company there's no way that they will negotiate that. You need to weigh whether or not what you are doing will grow large enough that they will care. If you setup a website and make $1000/mo they won't care. If you start running the next Uber while you work there, they will.
- mattnewton 9y agoBecause they want to own all your ideas. I think it a) ensures they don’t pass on a great idea like HP and apple, and b) means they have the best productive hours of your day since outside work is disincentivized. Many silicon valley giants were built off of moonlighters who quit their day job to build companies who later ate that day job, and the company would much rather promote you for new work than potentially miss out.
- fred_is_fred 9y agoI just posted the HP/Apple example as it came to mind, but I think a clause like that was already in place at the time and HP explicitly said "we dont want it".
- mattnewton 9y agoIANAL, but I thought modern contracts just give the company it, and thus avoid the step where a bureaucrat can decline.