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We don't do this, but we do have people work for us on a contract basis for a period of time while they still have another job. We have a lot of people who are

We don't do this, but we do have people work for us on a contract basis for a period of time while they still have another job. We have a lot of people who are looking for extra cash or maybe they like to just do a bunch of contract projects. But one thing can lead to another and then you decide you both want to work full time with each other.

walshemj 9y ago
Which is flat out gross misconduct for 99.9 % of all full time employees in the engineering field.
- matthewmacleod 9y ago
  Is that true? I’ve never had a contract that forbade me to work on side projects for cash.
  - walshemj 9y ago
    Oh you mean working in the black economy I am sure the IRA will be interested.
  - JauntTrooper 9y ago
    There's often a clause in the Employee Handbook you're asked to agree to periodically.
    - walshemj 9y ago
      And with Anglo Saxon law it's probably an implied term as there is so much precedent after all we are supposed to be good servants to our masters :-)
    - the-pigeon 9y ago
      The clause is unenforceable in most (perhaps all) US states.
- pwthornton 9y ago
  No one here has a contract that forbids working for other companies in your own time. I haven't seen that in the DC area. Maybe that's a Silicon Valley thing? People might have clauses to prevent people from working on similar work for competitors, sure, but I haven't seen anything that bars working on other kinds of projects outside of work.
  - walshemj 9y ago
    Standard in professional jobs - the US in particular tends to have laws that vastly favor the employers. SV is actually one of the liberal states. Though as you say your a journalist they tend to be exceptions.
convolvatron 9y ago
I agree with your general stance on CTH - but this seems a little sketch. If you're already a contractor and are used to trying to keep multiple projects going, or have some idle time, then by all means. From the candidate side its nice to sign up with eyes open to the bad as well as the good. But if you're working someplace salaried, it seems fairly dishonest to spin up a short contract. especially when most of the attention is consumed in the process of getting started (environment, implicit policies, platform, etc). plus on your side, you don't really know how much of that person you're getting. if the work is great, thats fine, but if it seems slow or misguided, is that a fundamental reflection of ability, or because they tried to cram it in between 8pm and 11pm every night?

walshemj 9y ago

Which is flat out gross misconduct for 99.9 % of all full time employees in the engineering field.

matthewmacleod 9y ago
Is that true? I’ve never had a contract that forbade me to work on side projects for cash.
- walshemj 9y ago
  Oh you mean working in the black economy I am sure the IRA will be interested.
- JauntTrooper 9y ago
  There's often a clause in the Employee Handbook you're asked to agree to periodically.
  - walshemj 9y ago
    And with Anglo Saxon law it's probably an implied term as there is so much precedent after all we are supposed to be good servants to our masters :-)
  - the-pigeon 9y ago
    The clause is unenforceable in most (perhaps all) US states.
pwthornton 9y ago
No one here has a contract that forbids working for other companies in your own time. I haven't seen that in the DC area. Maybe that's a Silicon Valley thing? People might have clauses to prevent people from working on similar work for competitors, sure, but I haven't seen anything that bars working on other kinds of projects outside of work.
- walshemj 9y ago
  Standard in professional jobs - the US in particular tends to have laws that vastly favor the employers. SV is actually one of the liberal states. Though as you say your a journalist they tend to be exceptions.

convolvatron 9y ago

I agree with your general stance on CTH - but this seems a little sketch. If you're already a contractor and are used to trying to keep multiple projects going, or have some idle time, then by all means. From the candidate side its nice to sign up with eyes open to the bad as well as the good. But if you're working someplace salaried, it seems fairly dishonest to spin up a short contract. especially when most of the attention is consumed in the process of getting started (environment, implicit policies, platform, etc). plus on your side, you don't really know how much of that person you're getting. if the work is great, thats fine, but if it seems slow or misguided, is that a fundamental reflection of ability, or because they tried to cram it in between 8pm and 11pm every night?