That’s just wild. I’m in meetings with slides constantly and never heard of this. We’ll, now I have a new rabbit hole to go down (as in “finding the most ridiculous of these”).
That’s just wild. I’m in meetings with slides constantly and never heard of this. We’ll, now I have a new rabbit hole to go down (as in “finding the most ridiculous of these”).
With each year that passes since the re-telling it gets exponentially more interesting.
Do… do people really buy add-ons for pp to enhance their slide decks?
Yes I might but was hoping to resolve this with them amicably first. I work for a high volume ecommerce business and we have customers doing this even as we are working to refund them so I try not use this if I can help it (it’s a tiny, tiny percentage of transactions before people start saying we must be terrible at customer service).
People are having a really hard time understanding that, yes, he is facing consequences at long last. The next step is seeing if the RNC will foot the bill.
You should probably lock your door when sleeping down the hall from him.
The band (not Jim) was the talent for sure. But as someone who was born in '72, I did enter teen years viewing him as the personification of Dionysus (which he cultivated). As an adult, I have no doubt he was an insufferable ass. :)
I have a beloved swatch from the nineties I am trying to expand the band on for my brother (he has MS so I’m trying to help with this as he has a hard time with phone calls, emails, and so on). Even swatch said all they could do was provide a larger band which was the same size (I am out $50 and they are not responding to my emails asking for a refund or replacement).
I’d love advice on this too!
You are probably very new to working in IT/programming if this shocks you and a clause like this is new to you.
I would ask myself how much a regular salary is worth over the value of a “maybe” idea you are not committed to already.
My personal advice is spend your time and energy honing your skills to increase your leverage with employers. When you are ready to take an idea to market you’ll need to understand how businesses work, etc. You can learn that at work. Pay attention to everything.
You could not enforce “everything you do is ours” in Canada. You cannot write a contract that overrides employment law. Seems crazy you could do that but maybe US legislation allows it. I can see this, especially in states that are more “pro employer”.
I have signed several of these. If you do it on company time or with company resources, it’s theirs. If you do it on your own time with your own stuff, it’s yours.
You may or may not be shocked to learn how many “personal projects” get done when people are supposed to be doing the work they get paid for or with resources they are effectively stealing from their employer. This isn’t some evil corporate attempt to steal your brilliant work. They are trying to make sure that when you are at work using their stuff you are doing your actual job.
If you have your own things you want to pitch as products you will be giving over the rights to that the minute you work on it on company time with company resources.
If your ideas are good, save money, quit, start a start up, and use your connections to make a good deal with them (sell it to them). Or wait until you are a vested shareholder.
Hey, it’s been a really long time since I had to reboot windows to change my IP. /s
I would have accepted a Garfield phone.
This announcement is performative. Probably just a “good” reason to back out of something they didn’t want to do anymore, anyway. Otherwise there’s paper on the deal and they wouldn’t back out.
Still waiting to hear how blockchain factors in
How does that make you feel? /s
I really think a lot of this is “the other popular kids are doing it” and boards and VC saying basically the same thing to the c-suite.
Fire and rain - James Taylor
Or sometimes Never Going Back - Fleetwood Mac
When it’s driving me nuts I blast the song and sing along on repeat a few times and it stops.
I have a sleep disorder. I can no longer nap, have alcohol (at all), caffeine after 9am, and so on.
I also love napping and have napped my entire life when possible until recently.
Since I can’t nap anymore without ruining my sleep I now sit or lay quietly with my eyes closed and just rest. I set an alarm for 5-10 minutes and snooze for a few minutes over and over until I “get up”. I never really fall asleep so (reluctantly) ending this rest period is not that hard.
This doesn’t give you that same rested feeling but I can destress, lower anxiety, and so on. This absolutely has led to me sleeping more deeply at night, getting drowsy before bed, etc.
A little like meditation but mostly just taking a break.