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A lot of these services have draconian terms, but nobody reads them. It's kind of funny that an innocent change in one part of the agreement might prompt people
by Buttons840 2y ago
A lot of these services have draconian terms, but nobody reads them. It's kind of funny that an innocent change in one part of the agreement might prompt people to read the whole agreement and realize there are outrageous parts that have been there forever.
One agreement I do read carefully every time is employment contracts, and it always makes me extremely angry, but what am I going to do? My family needs to eat. I sometimes complain about certain terms to co-workers and they almost always comment that their contract didn't have those terms, but I bet it does and they just didn't read it.
- lotsofpulp 2y ago> but what am I going to do? While employed, looking for a different buyer of your labor at preferable terms. During the negotiation process, cross out anything you disagree with.
- MissTake 2y agobut I bet it does and they just didn't read it Actually, in my case, it’s true. I had three terms removed from my contract that I didn’t like - initialed by both me and our CFO/Legal Counsel, and further annotated at the end of the contract before we both signed. She told me at the time that I was the first person to ask for this in the 15 years she’d been there. Way back in the 1990s in the UK I refused to sign a contract that had terms I saw as being illegal (pertaining to holiday/PTO). The three directors finally agreed to remove the terms (after wasting 2 months on it) the same day I turned in my notice to start a new job paying £6K more without dumb requirements in the contract!