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This is not standard. If you still want the job, try the following: print it, cross out the parts you don’t like, initial the changes, sign it and send back the scanned pdf. Most of the time HR doesn’t notice or care as long as they can check it off their list.
Does this work?
In general, you should not solicit from counterparties whether they believe the terms they are offering to you are reasonable or not. Assuming you're a well-compensated professional, which is true of the overwhelming majority of people on HN signing CIIAAs, you can afford to have every one read by a lawyer working for you, and you probably should. In terms of whether it's a market term or not: continuing to own your…
In general, you should not solicit from counterparties whether they believe the terms they are offering to you are reasonable or not. Assuming you're a well-compensated professional, which is true of the overwhelming majority of people on HN signing CIIAAs, you can afford to have every one read by a lawyer working for you, and you probably should. In terms of whether it's a market term or not: continuing to own your…
I consulted with a lawyer in a different jurisdiction and above was the interpretation of it. i.e. _owning work created after you're separated_.
if you are in SV, and you are not at a project where your output is critical to the companies success, you are wasting your time.
This is not common at all. What is common is to have such a clause apply to the period of employment but not after. Please feel comfortable telling your employer to remove it (many people don't know that every contract is negotiable).
Employer doesn't want to change it saying it's common and everyone signed it.
It doesn't necessarily mean that they plan to screw you. But it certainly means they don't trust you, and it brings all the downsides of lack of trust.
It also means that they're effectively filtering out talent, so your colleagues are unlikely to be very good.
Are they saying that anything you create on company time belongs to them indefiniely? That's fairly commmon in the UK and I don't have any stong feelings about it.
Are they saying that anything you create after you leave belongs to them? That's definitely not OK, but it's not clear that's what they are saying.
I've never seen this before and I would NEVER ever sign something like this.
This sounds like indentured servitude. The manager is lying to you when she says that it's "common". Run away from this company, fast. No job is worth signing an indefinite contract like that.
This is not common at all. What is common is to have such a clause apply to the period of employment but not after. Please feel comfortable telling your employer to remove it (many people don't know that every contract is negotiable).
Employer doesn't want to change it saying it's common and everyone signed it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not standard. If you still want the job, try the following: print it, cross out the parts you don’t like, initial the changes, sign it and send back the scanned pdf. Most of the time HR doesn’t notice or care as long as they can check it off their list.
Does this work?