Several years ago I walked out of a job on my first day for an medical
electronics company.  I went through the interview process without a
hitch.  There was no questions of privacy or any other questions that
would have tipped me off as this being a company trying to dig too far
into my personal life.  I got the job and showed up for my first day of
work.  They wanted me to sign the typical stack of papers (W2,
non-disclosure agreement, etc.) but there was one more paper they wanted
me to sign.  Their attitude was to sign it or leave so I left.

The paper they wanted me to sign was basically to give away all my
design rights.  I can understand having anything I was paid to design
while I was there being the property of the company.  However, they
wanted EVERYTHING.  I can pretty much still remember what the contract
said, "All designs become the property of the company weather they were
done on company property or not, weather they were done on company time
or not, weather they have to do with the normal business or the company
or not".  I asked, "So I worked on the weekends in my garage on the
design of some new leather whip and handcuff set to be sold at my local
adult fantasy store, you would now own the design"?  Their response was
"Yes".

David VanHorn wrote:

>At 05:30 AM 7/30/2004, Bill Couture wrote:
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>>On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, David VanHorn wrote:
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>>>>But *WOULD NOT* let me take a copy of their forms for inspection.
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>>>RUN, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
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>>That's about what happened.
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>>What astounds me is that there were other people there who actually filled
>>out the forms.  Gaaa....
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>Any time that you get anything of this sort, they are looking to hose you.
>No honest party will have any problem with you having your lawyer look at any agreement you're being asked to sign (well maybe a three letter agency would... )
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>An interview is always a two-way street.  Am there, Doing that :)
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