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Yet if you work in a warehouse, this policy apparently (from other commentators) applies to you too. I run the servers for an open source multiplayer video gam

Yet if you work in a warehouse, this policy apparently (from other commentators) applies to you too. I run the servers for an open source multiplayer video game, one of our frequent contributors used to work in the shipping mines at amazon. So I'd say it's an issue. Also one of our maps had a lot of work on it done by a bioware employee in map design who also created one of the valve sponsored community maps for tf2 (cp_coldfront). The difference between the soda example and the computers example, is that people who do tech work tend to have tech hobbies. Nobody who is a chemist at coke is going to have a hobby creating and random releasing drink recipes on the internet in their spare time. Anti-moonlighting clauses also fail to take into account one thing: If your employer is attempting to control all hours of your life, they should not be allowed to pay less then min wage for those hours. a $125k salary is still less then Seattle's Minimum Wage when you extrapolate it to all 168 hours in a day that amazon apparently wants to be able to control. ($14.30/h).

mimixco 5y ago
Actually, many famous food products, software products, cars, and other things were created by people who did work at their former competitors. It's been the subject of many lawsuits. Reese's were invented by a disgruntled employee at Hershey. No one has ever tried to control all of anyone's hours. All of my arguments are about the nature of the work and the intellectual property components it carries. If you are hauling boxes for Amazon or hauling boxes for Coke, none of this is relevant.
- MrStonedOne 5y ago
  > No one has ever tried to control all of anyone's hours. If my employer says I can not do something in my spare time, then they are controlling all of my hours, and they should be paying me for all of my hours.
  - mimixco 5y ago
    That's just not how salaried positions work. Shift positions, sure, but you won't find any kind of professional job where you're off the hook when you're off the clock. There are always expectations and rules about your conduct out of work. Some it is political (you can't be in crazy public political groups), some of it is legal (you can't doing illegal stuff), and some of it is about business (non compete, IP rules, etc). Once again, this is all one of the best reasons to work for yourself! When you work for someone else, they do get to set some of the rules -- for all of your life. Them's the breaks!

mimixco 5y ago

Actually, many famous food products, software products, cars, and other things were created by people who did work at their former competitors. It's been the subject of many lawsuits. Reese's were invented by a disgruntled employee at Hershey. No one has ever tried to control all of anyone's hours. All of my arguments are about the nature of the work and the intellectual property components it carries. If you are hauling boxes for Amazon or hauling boxes for Coke, none of this is relevant.

MrStonedOne 5y ago
> No one has ever tried to control all of anyone's hours. If my employer says I can not do something in my spare time, then they are controlling all of my hours, and they should be paying me for all of my hours.
- mimixco 5y ago
  That's just not how salaried positions work. Shift positions, sure, but you won't find any kind of professional job where you're off the hook when you're off the clock. There are always expectations and rules about your conduct out of work. Some it is political (you can't be in crazy public political groups), some of it is legal (you can't doing illegal stuff), and some of it is about business (non compete, IP rules, etc). Once again, this is all one of the best reasons to work for yourself! When you work for someone else, they do get to set some of the rules -- for all of your life. Them's the breaks!