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Re:One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Te... by ChuckMcM on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:05PM (#21526423)
There were a number of things in the Google employment agreement that my attorney suggested were either unenforceable for legal reasons or overly broad, he also pointed out that companies generally don't retain people who sue them (the contract is employment 'at will'). His advice was that if you didn't like it, just quit. That is the low cost way of getting out from under the contract that left little ill will behind. Suing was messy and follows one around to future job interviews.
Re:One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Te... by jacques_chester on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:54PM (#21528704)
Quite.

I'm generally of the view that knowingly adding unenforceable provisions to a contract should be a crime and/or professional malpractice worthy of being disbarred. It's obtaining advantage through unconscionable deception. Or, less fancily: fraud.

Entirely too much of this kind of thing is allowed to slide by legislatures.

Re:One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Te... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:46PM (#21528621)
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Re:One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Te... by ChuckMcM on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:12PM (#21530209)
An acquaintance loves that quote, but modifies it slightly, " ... Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man to get someone else to change it."