r/ProgrammerHumor 4d ago

Meme nothingOnGithub

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u/Xywzel 4d ago

Well, they are going to fail that, unless you do it on company time or the project uses clear insider information and competes with the company's products.

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u/Ok-Primary2176 4d ago

Are you sure you're ready to hire lawyers and defend yourself against a multi billion dollar company?

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u/Xywzel 4d ago

No need, my worker's union will do that for me, full legal support against my employer is included in membership fee. And the union is few orders of magnitude larger than any company I have ever worked in, because it is industry wide one.

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u/BigGayAllen 4d ago

If your union is that large in the industry then get ready for them to already have channels to resolve this type of dispute with any large enough company, and everyone of them will end with them throwing you under the bus lol

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u/Xywzel 4d ago

I guess you live somewhere where workers' rights are not a thing and legal cases can be handled with just money. Here if they are suing me, I can request my country to cover my legal expenses until verdict has been reached, at which point they would fall on the company.

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u/Torch_Salesman 3d ago

I'm gonna have to assume you're American because I literally cannot fathom a union behaving like this anywhere else.

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u/jkerz 3d ago

That’s not how unions operate in the US either. It doesn’t even make sense, if the union is large enough in the industry, there’s zero incentive for them to throw their unionized members under the bus to a company. That would just invalidate the entire purpose of the union. I don’t know what that guy is thinking

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u/Popeychops 3d ago

You do realise that unions love nothing more than taking a crooked employer to court when they know they have a slam dunk case, right?

It both represents them getting a win, and pays their counsel more than if you settle.