the "no good Perl jobs"/"no good Perl programmers" myth

[Raphael Mankin]

Other clauses to watch for:
1. They can sack you, but you can't sack  them.
2. No specified place of work, therefore you will go wherever they say
and get no travel expenses.
3. One contract I was offered did not even say that I would be paid.


On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 15:17 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "NC" == Nik Clayton <nik at ngo.org.uk> writes:
> 
>   NC> Now it's possible that my crack ninja coding skills[1] are
>   NC> responsible for this, but I doubt it somehow.
> 
> you code while smoking ninja crack? wow!
> 
>   NC> I think a lot of this is because people have a "won't bother" attitude
>   NC> to these sorts of things, for whatever reason.  One of my other hot
>   NC> button topics is the "we own everything you do" clause in the
>   NC> contracts. I indicated at the interview that that wasn't acceptable,
>   NC> and had it removed, so if I do it on my equipment and on my time then
>   NC> it's my code. Do other people bother 'fighting'[2] about stuff like
>   NC> that?
> 
> i also don't like those clauses and rewrite them in any contracts i
> do. if i create generic changes to existing code that i bring to the
> table, i still own that new code (copyright). all proprietary code i
> make for their work is owned by them. i won't let any customer take over
> copyright on code i can reuse in a general way.
> 
> uri
>