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This isn't surprising, though it does suck that employees have to jump through these hoops to avoid having our work claimed by employers. The way to go is to n
by thundergolfer 7y ago
This isn't surprising, though it does suck that employees have to jump through these hoops to avoid having our work claimed by employers.
The way to go is to never use company resources or company time when working on personal things and also never work on something that they'd want.
Sometimes it's convenient to break the first 2 rules so it's annoying to make sure to never use my work laptop/internet/office when working on personal stuff, but it's doable. The last bit is certainly quite tricky when you're at Google but I'm at Canva (design+marketing softwares) so all of my stuff is fine.
For stuff you'd like to monetise we send an email to our 'bosses' about it and they give an upfront a-OK.
- clarry 7y ago> Sometimes it's convenient to break the first 2 rules so it's annoying to make sure to never use my work laptop/internet/office when working on personal stuff, but it's doable. For me, remote work makes this very easy. My office is a bedroom in my apartment. My internet plan. I have a work laptop, strictly for work stuff, and my own laptop right next to it. I don't work on my own projects on company time, but I might on a lunch break (when I'm clocked out). (I occasionally use my own laptop to help with work stuff though -- having an extra device with an ethernet port comes in handy for tcpdumping stuff without having to try isolate the traffic I want from everything else going through the work laptop)
- lonelappde 7y agoWhat does a trillion dollar R&D company NOT work on?