Yeah, a couple of people have told me about it. I would say it sounds like a wet dream of a civil suit, but laws and precedent are a lot different here.
[ Doesn't mean he's not tempted to try anyway, but they'll have to do a lot more research before they can figure out if it's worthwhile to even think about trying.
Knowing that people were able to get out of some of it because of their contracts is a good place to start, though. Maybe other people had things in their contracts that they weren't able to avoid, and they could go after them for violating the contracts they're so keen to -
No, okay, not the point right now, Nelson. ]
You want to get real specific, cover exactly what you two want and don't want and what you can and can't do. More complicated than going vague and leaving yourself a lot of wiggle room for anything that might come up, but a hell of a lot safer. Smarter, too.
Yeah, we can do that. Full disclosure - it'll be the first contract I've done here, aside from working on my own and drafting up a couple of hypothetical ones so I can get a handle on the differences between contract work here and back home. But I'll let you have a look at them, and we can work on it together to make sure it's what you want.
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[ Doesn't mean he's not tempted to try anyway, but they'll have to do a lot more research before they can figure out if it's worthwhile to even think about trying.
Knowing that people were able to get out of some of it because of their contracts is a good place to start, though. Maybe other people had things in their contracts that they weren't able to avoid, and they could go after them for violating the contracts they're so keen to -
No, okay, not the point right now, Nelson. ]
You want to get real specific, cover exactly what you two want and don't want and what you can and can't do. More complicated than going vague and leaving yourself a lot of wiggle room for anything that might come up, but a hell of a lot safer. Smarter, too.
Yeah, we can do that. Full disclosure - it'll be the first contract I've done here, aside from working on my own and drafting up a couple of hypothetical ones so I can get a handle on the differences between contract work here and back home. But I'll let you have a look at them, and we can work on it together to make sure it's what you want.