On: My Ideas, My Boss’s Property

[walshemj]

that's a noncompte cluase (which is a totaly diferent thing) which I suspect would be impossible to enforce.

[zecho → walshemj]

I get that. I was pointing out dumb contract clauses in general. As the OP says, there's a large array of these types of things found in contracts, which is why I brought up overly restrictive non-competes and arbitration clauses, both of which are just as scummy as claiming ownership of any IP during the period of employment.

[walshemj → zecho]

But non competes are hard to enforce whereas having releted work/ip belongs to the employer is prity much custom and practice.

The employee employer relsionship is very one sided