Re: What happened to Howard Rogers ?

[Tim Gorman]

Title: Re: What happened to Howard Rogers ?

That is quite standard.  The meaning of “full time employment” does not admit the concept of “working on my own time”;  mutually exclusive in many senses.  In order to segregate “your own time” from that of a company, you have to be a temporary (i.e. contract) worker.  Each designation (i.e. permanent full-time employee or temporary contract worker) has its own advantages and disadvantages.  Everyone has a choice, but each choice buys the whole package.  It’s not an easy choice.


on 10/27/03 7:29 AM, Whittle Jerome Contr NCI at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I once worked for an excellent company, Southwest Research Institute, in the USA. As part of my employment agreement, I had to sign a paper saying ANY patent I was granted belonged to the company. It didn't matter if it was on my own time or not anything the company was doing. "Any" was the operative word.

Jerry Whittle
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NCI Information Systems Inc.
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From:   Nuno Souto [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

It's not unique to Australia and yes, they make
you sign a piece of paper to say anything you
do between 9am and 5pm belongs to the company...
Not just Oracle, BTW.  Everyone does that.  I wonder
what that would do to those who claim
one consulting gig = one book...

Oh, while I'm here: did anyone suggest Howard
had been sacked?  I don't recall seeing that
said anywhere here.  There was a troll suggesting
that in c.d.o.s., but that was just that: a troll.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
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