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Why does nobody talk about how long it takes to fix a bad 'work for hire' clause?
I just spent three weeks going back and forth on a single line about who owns the final designs. It was buried in the middle of a standard agreement and almost got past me. Has anyone else had a clause that ate up way more time than it should have?
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shah.xena6mo ago
Three weeks sounds about right, doesn't it? @ray215, a month on a non-compete proves some clauses are just built to waste time.
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fionat556mo ago
Yeah, the time thing is such a giveaway. I mean, if it was really about protecting secrets, a few weeks is plenty to let things cool off. But a whole year? That's just trying to scare you into staying put or being unemployed. They bank on people not knowing they can fight it. My friend had one that said she couldn't work in 'any business' in the whole northeast, which is just silly.
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mason2736mo ago
Ugh, tell me about it. I had one that tried to block me from the whole state for a year. My lawyer told them to get real. We settled on three months and a very small list of actual competitors. Always push back on the geography and job duty parts, they're almost always too broad.
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