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Amusing previous HN comment on this sort of problem (not from me): > I've always thought that if a company claims rights over what you do outside worktime, the

Amusing previous HN comment on this sort of problem (not from me): > I've always thought that if a company claims rights over what you do outside worktime, they should do it not only for your genial ideas, but for the bad ones too. So, if you incur in a stupid debt it must belong to the company. Your newborn baby? The company mus pay alimony. It's all or nothing! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1113065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1113065 Edit: I found a Slashdot comment that makes the same point: > When the company has a blanket policy that takes the employee's inventions, it can come to bite them in the ass. > When I was illegally fired by Microsystems, Inc. ("MSI") they took possession of work I did on my own time using my own tools. However, on the workers comp. claim their denial was based on the claim the tendinitis was caused in part by my work at home. Either MSI fraudulently denied the workers comp. claim, or committed fraud by asserting and taking possession of the work I did on my own time. > By having a blanket policy of owning everything you do, the employer could be on the hook for everything you do. http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2667463&cid=39013649 http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2667463&cid=39013649

PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> I've always thought that if a company claims rights over what you do outside worktime A lot of people are assuming this was done separate from his job, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Badoo/Bumble isn't trying to claim ownership of other projects he did, just the ones that were closely related to his Badoo/Bumble work during his employment.
- btrettel 5y ago
  Fair enough, I'm not aware of all the details of the specific case here.
filoeleven 5y ago
I read an apocryphal story about a guy whose manager saw him leaving and coming back during the workday, and asked later why he didn’t clock out and back in. “I was getting a haircut,” the man said. “That’s not part of your job duties here, you cannot do that on the company’s time,” replied the manager. “Why not?” said the man. “I grew most of it on the company’s time.”

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

> I've always thought that if a company claims rights over what you do outside worktime A lot of people are assuming this was done separate from his job, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Badoo/Bumble isn't trying to claim ownership of other projects he did, just the ones that were closely related to his Badoo/Bumble work during his employment.

btrettel 5y ago
Fair enough, I'm not aware of all the details of the specific case here.

filoeleven 5y ago

I read an apocryphal story about a guy whose manager saw him leaving and coming back during the workday, and asked later why he didn’t clock out and back in. “I was getting a haircut,” the man said. “That’s not part of your job duties here, you cannot do that on the company’s time,” replied the manager. “Why not?” said the man. “I grew most of it on the company’s time.”