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A corollary.
Once, long ago, I was hired at a new job. They gave me a big wedge of new-employee paperwork to fill out on the first day. One of the documents was a form assigning ownership of any intellectual property I came up with on my own time to the company.
I didn't want to do that, but I also didn't want to have a big fight over it, so I just tossed that form in the trash. If they really cared about it, I figured, someone would come bug me about it later. No one ever did.
People can ask you to do anything they want. But don't assume they care enough to fight over it just because they asked
I'm contracted to be in the office 3 days a week. It's totally unnecessary so about a year ago I just stopped turning up. Kept doing all my work dialling in to any meetings I needed to be in. My manager never said anything and neither did HR. The moral is, don't ask, just do.
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2026-05-29 15:23:59 UTCEvent JSON
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