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No can do, not sure if enforceable but employment agreement says all code I write even if unrelated to job is theirs.
by xilni 8y ago
No can do, not sure if enforceable but employment agreement says all code I write even if unrelated to job is theirs.
- jedimastert 8y agoI'm with you. At my current job there is no possible way to start any kind of "paying" side project.
- CodeCube 8y agoSo start a not-for-profit side project then (assuming a side project is something you're interested in) ... if your employment at this current place ever ends, then you have something tangible to take with you and show off; and side projects have a way of being more valuable than purely what money they can bring in (experience, clout, connections, etc)
- burnt_toast 8y agoJoel Spolsky wrote an excellent article about these kinds of clauses in programmer employment agreements. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-projects/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
- caconym_ 8y ago> This ambiguity is meant to create enough of a chilling effect on the employee working in their spare time that for all intents and purposes it achieves the effect that the employer wants: the employee doesn’t bother doing any side projects that might turn into a business some day, and the employer gets a nice, refreshed employee coming to work in the morning after spending the previous evening watching TV. Nailed it.
- mgkimsal 8y agowrite something illegal, see if they want to actually own that code. write strong encryption libraries and make them available for anyone to export.