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My boss crossed off that section of his contract when he worked for Booz Allen, and nobody made a peep.
by llimllib 16y ago
My boss crossed off that section of his contract when he worked for Booz Allen, and nobody made a peep.
- foobarbazoo 16y agoI negotiated my contract with Apple; it had to go through legal and get VP-level approval, but the changes were approved. I doubt everyone can do this, though.
- gms 16y agore: your last sentence, what made your situation special?
- bphogan 16y agoThe lesson though is that the answer is always no unless you ask.
- alexqgb 16y agoThis suggests that a lot of this stuff is boilerplate. Often, it gets added to contracts because there's no cost in doing so (except to the laywer's client). At the same time, it's not necessarily part of a broader strategy to which the company is firmly, if quietly committed, and which they'll stick to, even as the costs of doing so escalate. If the baseline cost of finding and hiring the right people is at all significant, economizing by lowering resistance is a no-brainer. Just treat this stuff like default settings from a useful, if not totally UX-savvy provider of software, and don't raise any eyebrows unless you get unexpected and seemingly arbitrary or mindless pushback.
- bphogan 16y agoIt's nice to see more evidence that people do this. I've always believe that contracts are negotiable, so it's good to know that I'm not the only one that does this.
- auxbuss 16y agoI've always done this with contracts, in any part of life. If I don't like a clause then I amend it or spike it. SOP as far as I'm concerned. No-one has ever complained, although there might be some discussion.
- patio11 16y agoI did this at a Japanese megacorp (which are, ahem, not historically known for their embrace of flexibility in employer/employee relations), as a condition of my accepting their offer of employment. My bosses were supportive. I also got them to OK my ongoing participation in OSS.