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Potential responses to a bigger company’s onerous contract demands
- tonystubblebine 17y agoOur experience is that larger companies are often quite flexible and can remove many of the onerous demands. It's definitely worth asking for them to be removed or amended. When you're small, the person hiring you has often already decided that you're a risk worth fighting for and will push through any roadblocks.
- mahmud 17y agoNot when you're really tiny, and they're one of the largest employers in the world. I am a one man software shop and my dealings with one of the world's largest beverage producer has been anything but negotiation. The lady I have been dealing with has been really hard, I am not exaggerating, but it's very close to them ordering me around. Every few weeks I get 20 pages of crap for me to go thorough, and I usually have a day or so read the fine print, sign and fax it back to them. I am not even sure what I promised anymore, however, the pay, when it comes around in about a year or so is well worth it (not exactly retirement, but enough to live off of for 5+ years.)
- wglb 17y agoTrue, and I had one very large company back off after the equivalent of a staredown. My lawyer, when first seeing the contract, left me a one-word voicemail: "Egregious".