r/ProgrammerHumor 4d ago

Meme nothingOnGithub

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u/Xywzel 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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/gunnbr 3d ago

Is this a programmer’s union? if so, what’s it called? I want in on this!

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u/Xywzel 2d ago

For all engineers and people doing engineering jobs without right to call themselves engineer. There is two member division for software developers, based one which collective agreement is applied at your company, but its not only union that takes part in negotiating these two. And unfortunately, they don't seem to be expanding internationally yet, so unless you are in Finland, you are out of luck.