Being GLAD to be terminated.

shadoquad

Everywhere I've ever worked, if you work on a project on a company or client system, it is their project. End of debate. You worked on it using their property, on their time, using their electricity/internet/lighting/etc.

If you're getting paid to do a job, don't work on your personal pet projects.



Edit: Which means that when I leave my current company, they'll have years worth of my research in new and exciting ways of calling Dan ghey.

370Z Purist

I suppose it could depend on some circumstances, which would be nice to have. Imagine a company that encourages it, and if management were to see potential profit in it, would pay you more to develop the project and use their resources. You have the patent filed jointly under your name and the company under agreement that neither party uses it "maliciously" (let's just go with the obvious, purest intent: that neither party just claims it and kicks the other off the patent). Then one way or another you get some kind of bonus that is justified or something.

University completely claims everything on the laptop. Even all master's theses, dissertations, etc. It's ridiculous. Some parts of the agreement also state that if I were to upload a rendering showing enough information of something that I spent time to create that would eventually be used by the school, that I would have to pay for the losses in potential revenue, or suffer some kind of legal battle about how I uploaded a "company secret" or whatever they call it in the agreement. Intellectual property, maybe. It's draconian.

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