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> So what happens when I sign and still rant about the company. Then you've broken your word.
by ggchappell 13y ago
> So what happens when I sign and still rant about the company.
Then you've broken your word.
- d0ugie 13y ago.. and no shot of a healthy Safe Harbor gift a few months down. I got, on top of three months' severance a surprise $2K Safe Harbor gift, only having worked for the company for just over a year. And they were effective references, including the man who sacked me. Leaving gracefully (and briskly without making a scene) can indeed be helpful, though perhaps not in the Times author's circumstances.
- mlvljr 13y ago...and their world
- officemonkey 13y agoWell, they have to get a court to decide that, now don't they.
- ggchappell 13y agoCourts decide legal issues. If you give your word that you'll refrain from doing something, and then you do it, then you've broken your word, regardless of legalities.
- officemonkey 13y agoIf I signed the contract, I said I would refrain of disparagement. If I was subsequently critical of the firm and the company thought it rose to disparagement, it becomes a legal issue.