RE: [Nolug] Professional Question

From: E. Strade, B.D. <estrabd_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:46:38 -0500
Message-Id: <1091749598.4865.201796981@webmail.messagingengine.com>

You may also want to consult "ask slashdot" - one example of some
results:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=4&query=employment&author=&sort=2&op=stories

Brett

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:22:14 -0500, "Chris Reames"
<chris@drugfreemro.com> said:
> > Innovative ideas that you thought of at the office?
> >
> Yes, to a degree, I worked for a company previously owned by some of the
> same people.
> This company no-longer exists, yet these people claim that their current
> company has sole ownership of my knowledge.
> My understanding of the way this business works is based on general
> information and common sense.
>
> Ok, lets try this...Somebody at work gives you a blank piece of paper and
> asks 'What can you do with this?'.
> You take the paper and fold it into a hat. You've never folded a paper
> hat
> and they've never had a paper hat.
> ( big point, they don't pay you to fold paper into hats {ie programming}
> )
> Who owns the idea of folding the paper hat? Who owns the hat if they say
> its stupid?
>
> Thats the delima I'm facing.
> Also, if I can fold a piece of paper into anything else, they want to own
> that as well.
>
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