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Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired by alex4nder on Thursday November 10, 2011 @12:51PM (#3220992)
The new hires will just need 'no takebacks' written into their contracts.
Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired by api on Thursday November 10, 2011 @01:46PM (#3221244)
Never sign a contract with someone for whom you think a contract is necessary.
Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired by neilk on Thursday November 10, 2011 @02:20PM (#3221388)
No, contracts are useful even if you trust the other party intimately, because they spell out, in writing, exactly what is expected of each party. Believe it or not, sometimes disputes arise even among people who had the best intentions.

They also allow you to continue to do business even if the other company changes hands.

I think the point you're trying to make is that if you already don't trust someone, a contract is not going to save you. That I can agree with.

Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired by api on Thursday November 10, 2011 @02:35PM (#3221469)
The latter is what I meant. I didn't mean don't sign contracts. I meant don't do business with scum.
Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired by rcthompson on Thursday November 10, 2011 @01:00PM (#3221051)
They would also have to remember to put "no callbacks times infinity".
Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired by cheald on Thursday November 10, 2011 @12:57PM (#3221031)
The only way that happens is if they're hired with vested stock, which is just not going to happen.
Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired by maeon3 on Thursday November 10, 2011 @01:00PM (#3221049)
But still then mark pincus would find another way to cheat his developers. The only way to deal with little lucifers like this is to completely avoid and ignore them.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pincus