@fesshole That is far, far more damaging to them than anything disparaging you could say. And saying anything disparaging would make you look like a spiteful, bitter nut job.

This is very good. They shot themselves in the foot 🤣 priceless.

@fesshole Like when the moderation rules on your instance prevent you from wishing anyone dead and you just point that out with reference to certain persons.

@fesshole in Sweden it's actually illegal (disparaging your employer), you have a duty of loyalty from what I've been told

@fesshole I had a similar clause in a redundancy payoff and was advised that saying something like what the OP says could be classed as a breach of the clause as you are inferring negative comments about the company.

@fesshole employers shootting themselves in the foot 🤣

@fesshole "On advice of counsel, they have many fine qualities and I wish them well."

@fesshole este toot tendría sentido si incluyera el nombre de esa compañia....
@espanabizarra

@fesshole “They’re the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful company I’ve ever worked for in my life.”

@fesshole I mean, I'm pretty sure that clause is illegal/unenforceable now

@fesshole , the other important factor here is it tells them you can also comply and understand the terms of a contract.

@fesshole a company I worked for got acquired by the local phone company and I had to sign something similar, so now when I describe their DSL offerings I use that same phrase

@fesshole the last job I left they offered to pay me two weeks salary if I signed a non disparagement agreement.

At that moment, I told them to check GlassDoor because I had already left my disparaging review of the company.

A friend of mine stayed in another year and said that they were unable to hire anybody to replace me because of my very honest GlassDoor review.

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I must not complain on social media about my employer. But nobody told me to stay silent in "real life".

@fesshole @the_gneech It’s not disparagement if it’s verifiable fact. Keep that in your back pocket.

@fesshole In Germany, it's vice versa – employees have a right for an employer's reference when they leave their job, and employers are not allowed to put anything negative into it.

The effect is that there is a catalog of positive phrases that have negative meanings -- classic example is, "they endeavored to meet requirements", which translates as "they never once actually met the requirements". Or, "all colleagues appreciated their warm nature" -- "they had sex with all of them".

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Ha! Petard and all that!

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Out of curiosity was this an NDA you had to sign when they hired you, or an NDA they tried to get you to sign after they hired you?

@fesshole employer heard someone go "I can't complain" and took it literally

@fesshole NDAikido

@fesshole this is the kind of fess I am here for.

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Good idea

@fesshole oooo that's brilliant

@fesshole sounds like it's pretty disparaging to say to others that they made you sign this NDA; therefore you may be legally in hot water 😅
Checkmate atheists

@fesshole you could also rephrase it as though it were positive:

"our company is an industry leader in high turnover rates"

"Our company is a competitive investment; we use over 30 employment productivity metrics to ensure employees do not dilly dally with things like 'lives' and 'families'"

@fesshole hahaha that is awesome xD

@fesshole this is like the old joke about life under totalitarianism.

“So, how are things under the Glorious Communist Revolution?”

“Oh, you know… we can’t complain”

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It's almost always possible to say the impossible 👏

@fesshole Previous employer made everyone sign the new contract, earlier starts, finishing later, tighter controls, change to KPI's, stricter conditions. The lot. A handful of us didn't sign it. They couldn't make us. Most learnt too late. Management were furious but their hands were tied because only the new contract gave them the power to take action.
They fucking hated us!

@fesshole "I am contractually obligated not to say things like <list of things that are wrong with the place>"

@fesshole When I sign such things, I add the letters "UD" to my name, indicating "Under Duress". So if I ever have to explain it to a judge, I can explain "that was signed Under Duress - they were going to fire me if I did not sign, and my family would die. So duress - invalid contract".
#MadLawyer

@fesshole Malicious compliance. I love it.

@fesshole It makes me happy seeing this post because my actual boss boosted it.

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That's the "Streisand" effect in action.

Well played.

@fesshole he he

@fesshole This is delightful.

@fesshole I'm not sure pizza can save them

@fesshole This is how it is done.

@fesshole Love me some malicious compliance.

@fesshole @fritzoids OpenAI NDAs prohibit you from mentioning their existence

@fesshole Fun fact about any contract: They're not binding if you move to a country with no extradition treaty. ;)

@fesshole you do you, but at that point, if this an ethical matter you should quit

@fesshole @gsuberland Usually these clauses (or the entire NDA) come with an expiration date. A new hire had such a clause and he told us when that NDA would expire. We then scheduled a meeting one day after the expiration to talk about it.