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Google is weird about that kind of stuff, inside and out. Google asked all of us who had been around longer than a certain amount of time to re-sign our NDAs b
by rachelbythebay 14y ago
Google is weird about that kind of stuff, inside and out.
Google asked all of us who had been around longer than a certain amount of time to re-sign our NDAs because "they lost them" or they "didn't get signed your first day of work" or something like that. I asked to see a copy of the old version so I could diff it (visually, ugh) to see what I was supposedly agreeing to in the new one.
They provided the old version all right... not AN old version, THE old version. As in, the actual (scanned) copy I signed my first day of work... and it had my signature on it, right next to the date, just as I remembered it.
I found out much later they pulled this on a whole bunch of people.
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- iooi 14y agoWhat was the diff if you don't mind me asking?
- rachelbythebay 14y agoI think part of it was something like "if you access corp from a device, you have just tainted it and we can dig around on it at any time, including when you quit", which I mechanically translated to "never read my mail, Buzz, or anything else from home unless I'm on the company laptop or the Nexus One which they gave me and is fundamentally tainted anyway". This could have affected my personal iPhone, Linux box(es) at home, and anything else which might have accessed google.com/a/google.com/... resources. So, I basically stopped checking mail unless I was at work. I also think they tried to make it retroactive to the day I started work, but I'd like to see that fly in a court of law. Retroactively tainting my machines? Good luck with that.
- jrochkind1 14y agoSo... you didn't then say "Okay, so why did you want me to sign a new one again?"