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Or maybe they just love the job and think that the legal dept is a dick but that does not overshadow their love of the work being done at this company.

What is shocking to me is that if I were working in say the automobile industry and I make a highly customized bike, these kind of clause would mean that my employer owns all of that.

Some may argue since I have paid for the components and not the company that would save me, but to be fair the programmer paid for his/her laptop/desktop, servers (if any), maybe even some programming tools. Does having most of the stuff to make a side project come for free make me eligible for giving up my IP to my employer? This is just insane.

This is the most shocking thing I heard this hour.

scg is right, this is indeed incredibly stupid. How can they own something you make in your spare time.