Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free
by jfim on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:23PM
(#10279408)
Some contracts have a clause where you work exclusively for this employer.
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Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free
by lighthawk on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:24PM
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Yes, but if they enforce that, they might fire you but they won't be able to take your IP away. Not if they exclude the IP you produce for other companies as part of the IP agreement.
Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free
by binarycrusader on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:25PM
(#10279424)
Often referred to as a 'moonlighting' clause and by lawyers as 'duty of loyalty'.
Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free
by JustSomeNobody on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:54PM
(#10279596)
Love how loyalty only works one way.
Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free
by savanaly on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:11PM
(#10279698)
When you sign up to work for the company, you agree to do X and they agree to pay you Y. You are disloyal to them if you don't do all or part of X (for instance, if X includes thinking up ideas for them, taking your really valuable ideas that you thought up while working for them and leaving and using them yourself), and they are disloyal if they don't pay you Y. Those are the terms, after all! So I don't see how loyalty only goes one way...
Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free
by Karunamon on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:41PM
(#10279892)
If I'm at home, on my own computer, on my own time, I am not "working for them".
Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free
by JustSomeNobody on Friday September 25, 2015 @03:13PM
(#10280091)
If they don't have an impressive QER, I get axed. That's what I mean.