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Re:Ask HN: Are all programming employment contracts this bad? by hwstar on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:02AM (#10129809)
The key is disclosing all contracts at the time of the offer. Some unscrupulous employers wait until the first day the employee show up for work after they left a previous job.

In these cases unless you have lots of money in the bank, you have little choice but to sign and live under the restriction.

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Re:Ask HN: Are all programming employment contracts this bad? by sjs382 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:16PM (#10130304)
Agreed.

Please, employers, disclose all policies and contracts at the time of the offer.

And please, employees, ask about policies and contracts at the time of the offer.

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Re:Ask HN: Are all programming employment contracts this bad? by chrisblackwell on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:03PM (#10130225)
This is what has happened to me. I start on Monday, and just got this contract yesterday.
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Re:Ask HN: Are all programming employment contracts this bad? by davismwfl on Thursday August 27, 2015 @01:01PM (#10130611)
If I were you, in the future at least, I would be requiring a potential employer to supply me with the contract before I agreed to give notice at my current position. If you are professional about it they will get it and unless they are dodgy they won't have any issue with it. I have had a couple of freelancers I worked with in the past year actually ask me for the agreement in this way and I totally respect that and have no issues with it.
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