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From: james@utastro.UUCP (James McCartney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Rigid Mac Programmer's Employee Agreement - Help!!
Message-ID: <3997@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 16:38:45 GMT
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   I've done contracting work and have been faced with agreements like these.
If an employer has presumably hired you for your experience and expertise in
a certain area, it seems hypocritical that these agreements are often worded
to construe that nothing you learn here may you use in any future employment.
No company should be able to lay claim to your "know-how", since
they would not have hired you if you hadn't had it in the first place.
   --- James McCartney