[ SECRET POST #2899 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2899 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But this is standard in most work contracts today. You don't own your own ideas during the time you work for a company, even if you develop them outside work hours.

My brother developed an idea for his own business, and had to pretend that he'd developed it before/after working for the company. He was sensible enough not to go chatting about his ideas with work colleagues.

Just read your work contracts, people. Have a little sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Jeez, how is that even legal to do that? We need proper employee protection laws. I mean I can understand not using company resources, or using privileged information to steal clients, but any idea whatsoever, even if you dreamt it up at home? How is that possible?

[(Anonymous)]

My country has pretty good employee protection laws, but still anything you think up or discuss on work time belongs to work. You can think up things at home all you like.

[replicantangel]

Mostly it's for people who are being paid to think - it makes sense the company wants to keep the ideas of their people that they hired to do just that. An engineer at GE, for example, might be getting paid to make more efficient refrigeration. If he's at work or at home in the shower when inspiration strikes, that's his job, and they want the fruits of that. Otherwise, any employee could say "no, I thought of this in the shower at home" and run off and create a refrigeration company with the new idea and directly compete with GE. Obviously, they don't want that.

If you're a janitor at GE and you come up with a new way to do refrigeration, that's far less likely to be a problem if you leave GE and create that new company. That wasn't your job, and it's probably not even in your contract. Better be prepared to prove you didn't use company resources though (like looking at the big boards engineers use to spitball their ideas). Lengthy court battles have been fought over such things, but generally, the ideas the company keeps have to be relevant to their job. It makes sense really, or people would be screwing over their employers in order to compete with them all the time with the excuse that they thought of the idea at home.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, that came off as condescending. We were 18 at the time. Do you think an average 18 year old college sophomore majoring in art knows shit about contract law? Sorry your obvious law degree allows you to be so superior about it. We were in a crowded cafeteria having a private conversation. We weren't thinking we needed to protect ourselves from corporate spies, god damn.

[thistlechaser]

Yeah, I was going to say, that's standard, not some Disney suck.