So this is just a PSA, y'all should never sign a contract until you read it. I’m talking in rl right now. I just got through reading my employee handbook/service contract and my bosses slipped in a lot of bullshit like telling me I can’t complain about my job on social media, demanding I work off the clock in the name of good service, expects me to show up on time during inclimate weather, and considered disability or religious accommodation a direct threat to the company.
These are all things I took issue with and brought to my employer for further discussion before signing the contract. Most of my coworkers signed without reading, treating it like an internet terms of service contract.
Tl;dr real life is serious shit, lawyers write contracts to protect your employer FROM YOU, read contracts before you sign them - fucking ARGUE about contracts before you sign them
Also important to note, and something my bf has repeated to me many times: a contract is a negotiation until it is signed, and YOU ARE ALLOWED TO AMEND IT. Tech companies often put some bs in there about “we own everything you make while you work for us” which broadly applied also means anything done on your own time. He always ALWAYS does write-in amendments with initial and date to state that they only own things done FOR the company, on company time, because there have been companies that enforced that bullshit when somebody had a personal side project the company decided they wanted to steal. There’s only one company that threw a fit at his attempts to amend it and he considered that a huge red flag and refused to sign, turned down the job.
Never. EVER. Sign shit without reading it. Also: if your prospective employer won’t let you take the thing home to read before you sign it and says you need to sign it then and there THAT IS A RED FLAG. The job I had that turned out to be abusive as shit was like that. Every other job I’ve been able to bring the contract home to my parents to have a more experienced set of eyes on it. It’s also common practice in some fields to have one’s attorney look over it before signing. So never let them tell you that you can’t look over it with someone else. That’s a fat load of shit. For “lower level” jobs they may not accept amendments to the contract but if they won’t even give you the proper time to read it over, they’re trying to pull some bullshit on you and you’re going to regret it if you sign. Even if there’s nothing bad in what you signed it’s an example of how they are going to treat you while you’re there. Take it to heart and run like fucking hell.
Please also tell your coworkers. Inform others. Tell everyone. Please, for the lovee of everything TELL PEOPLE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO THESE THINGS.
Companies BANK on the fact you’re not going to read it. Then they slip in shit like ‘you can’t talk about your wages’ because they want you to keep quiet, so thy can pay that guy six bucks, and pay the guy over there fifteen and pay you eight. They want you to accept it all blindly. PLEASE DON’T STAY BLIND.
Yes, I’ve lost out on jobs because I wanted to read it and they didn’t want me to. Or they wanted m to resign and I said no to to the things they added that I pointed out were unfair and borderline illegal.
Read shit. Tell everyone else to read shit. BE INFORMED.
Absolutely 100% good advice ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼
Never ever ever sign shit without reading and re-reading it! Take it home, show it to someone more experienced, if you can, show it to a lawyer. A contract is supposed to work for both sides. A company in Toronto tried to make me sign a contract with clause that in event of me leaving the job I will not work in a similar position anywhere in Ontario. Yeah, right, not enforceable in court, dudes, you can’t prevent me from making a living. Read the shit and don’t let them intimidate you.
Hi. I‘m a lawyer. Ask for at least 24 hours before you sign a work contract. You do not have to sign within 30 seconds of the contract hitting the desk. It is absolutely standard procedure. It gives you time to show it to a lawyer or go to a public counselor and have them look it over. In-room signing is another way companies blindside and intimidate you. Don’t be rushed. This is an absolutely normal thing to do. People who try to harangue you or hurry you along are sketchy.
THIS GOES FOR ANY SORT OF PUBLISHING CONTRACT AS WELL,
What with the whole “reopening the economy ‘after’ the pandemic” vibe going on, now, and employers aggressively trying to recruit new staff, there’s a lot of pressure to take whatever job you’re offered (especially in states with Republican governors & legislatures).
So all this is extra important to keep in mind, right now.
Same thing with leases! I always cross out dumb provisions in my leases, like not being allowed to put things on the wall etc. just cross them out sign it, the landlords probably never even notice.
hey everyone. I’m in need of some help right now; my boyfriend had passed away recently and I’m currently trying to find two friends of his that he was very close to so that I can inform them of what’s happened.
Their names are Justin (he/him) & Deni (she/her). I don’t have much info about them because my boyfriend respected their privacy and never shared their discord or other accounts with me. The only info I have so far is that Justin & Deni faceclaim Papyrus and Chara respectively from Undertale, and their favorite AUs of Sans is Ink and Error (also respectively). I also know Justin used to cosplay as Papyrus on GaiaOnline.
My boyfriend went by the following names: Astro, Noot, Mar/Marquez/Marcus, and Apollo.
If anyone knows these two, please reach out to me. My discord is goodbye my love.#9802 or you can DM me on twitter (@/SiinfulSweets)
Please don’t ignore this. It’s extremely important to me that I find them.
Please don’t let this be ignored. It’s extremely urgent to me.
This is a character I sketched out MONTHS ago, finally got the motivation to finish him. Huge Kaiju pieces with a lotta detail are pretty daunting
Meet the god of the ocean, Siphos! I based him off of a siphonophore- colonial organisms made up of a bunch of small animals linked together. On the left are some of the individual sections separated, and on the right is all of him put together!
Siphos believes humans to be a blight on the earth, he wants nothing more than to wipe out all land civilization. Being tied to the water, he can’t cross onto land to fulfil that goal himself. With the Atlantean Queen, Siphos created Marlowe- a being that would cross onto land and flood the earth.
Check out Marlowe’s story in the description, here
Length Section: These are the sea monsters of every old ocean tale. Boat-sinking beasts, the raging arms of Siphos’ wrath. They gather in the many thousands to make up Sipho’s body length
Bubble Sheet: Mindless behemoths- mostly made of water, they blend into the ocean almost perfectly. Linked together, they envelop Sipho’s body length and create the large bubble membrane at his front
Drones: Essentially giant jellyfish, these are Siphos’ eyes. They survey all of the ocean with small spheres at their core that resemble fish eggs. They connect together in long strings to form Siphos’ many tendrils as well as the floating lights that follow around him
Front Core Section: These beings contain Siphos’ intelligence. They travel to remote shorelines in search of small villages and fisherman towns. When humans approach, their minds become lost in a haze. People who worship these beings slowly lose their humanity, becoming transformed into fish people over time. These are Siphos’ chosen few who would survive the oncoming world flood. If one is separated from the Core, they will regain their mind, but will never regain their memories of who they used to be. The earth is sparsely filled with fish people who have managed to escape the Core’s influence, most of them living far in-land, forever fearful of what lies in the ocean.
