"we can veto your resignation and require you to stay until such time as it's convenient for us"--sounds very open-ended and unenforceable. This contract sounds like they could pretty much force you to work there the rest of your life.

Did the contract mention that you had a right to be paid? That would be breach on their part.

You might not take your former employee for speaking high praise of you, but your next employer might.

"His former employer said he was an excellent employee, but we caught him clubbing baby seals his first day on the job and had to fire him!"

I was once the sysadmin for a high school, and the principal had, in the past, made veiled threats to terminate me for applying for other jobs.

So I was applying for jobs to get out of that toxic workplace. I always listed "____ County Schools" as my employer, not "____ High School", even though I listed my principal as my supervisor [which he was].

This guy was a loose cannon like Michael in _The Office_. If someone called him asking about me, he might sing praises one second and breathe fire the next.

But great idea. I should have had a friend call him to ask about me, just for kicks. Maybe I should just have a friend call now to see what he says 1.5 years after the fact. :-)

I got a lot of that. Any effort I'd make at work to make something more efficient or faster, and I was accused of "you're just trying to make your job easier".

server installs you!

I currently am at a "great place to work": we all watch out for each other, we do our jobs, we cooperate, and there's very, very little infighting or office politics.

A few months ago, I asked my boss for a week of paid vacation, and he gave it to me. I wound up not getting paid for that week. Two things went wrong: I didn't fill out the official leave request, and my boss didn't tell HR; either one of those would have solved the problem. My boss told HR about it, and I received a supplemental paycheck and apology. We all learned our lesson, and life went on.

Yes, HR apologized for the minor inconvenience to me, but it wasn't their fault--it was mine/my boss's, and it was corrected so easily, no disciplinary action was taken. HR probably makes errors very, very seldom, especially considering the amount of automation they have around here.

Judging by the culture of my workplace, If we did have layoffs, there would probably be severance, and you can bet your ass that HR would not goof up the severance checks.

Having said this, I'd love to know the magnitude of the M$ errors/overpayment [not mentioned in TFA], and if M$ told their employees beforehand how much to expect in severance. Or if someone just said "Oh, we shouldn't have paid them that much! Recall it!"

Is Microsoft related to the RIAA in this matter? What's next? Am I going to get a letter demanding payment for having never worked for Microsoft?

Back when I had a landline, Sprint accidentally put me on the "Landline assistance for poor people" federally-subsidized landline program. From 2000 to 2005, I was paying about $20/mo, taxes included, for a landline with "everything": CID, 3-way, forward on busy or no answer, and 100 minutes of long distance. I never requested the assistance, then again, when I first got the landline, I was a college student making $7/hr, and when they found that out from my employer, they might have applied for it for me. I was up to $30k/yr when I finally fired Sprint in favor of a cellphone--still on it.

Where I used to be the sysadmin, CompUSA accidentally shipped me five 512 MB Sony Memory Sticks. I had ordered from them before, and chances are the person on the phone taking the order clicked on the wrong name. Nonetheless, UPS showed up at my workplace with the sticks. This was about two years before CompUSA went under.

I never heard from CompUSA again about the sticks--chances are they chalked it up as a loss due to clerical error.

I'd love to know what my legal rights would have been if CompUSA showed up demanding payment or the sticks back.

Let us not remember that Ahnold starred in quite a few extremely violent movies.

This isn't the first Ahnold irony I've found. While watching MSNBC's "lockup", an inmate said that Ahnold took away weights from prisons. Think about it.

This was in an episode of the 1960s spy comedy "Get Smart", where Max was shown their new, multimillion-dollar insect microphone, and he destroyed it by swatting it with a newspaper. Repeated in the 2008 movie when The Rock kills the bug with his hand.

I could never do that research in my house. "Look honey, this is my new remote controlled..." MEOW! *swat* *nom nom nom*

https://192.168.1.1/Log.asp

So would I have to take a screenshot of my Logging configuration to prove that I have logging on? The WRT54G v2.0 isn't exactly the king of detailed logging.

I'm not expecting this to pass.

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Last I checked, Google isn't forcing vendors into signing Google-only contracts to bundle only Google software with new computers.

They should just go the RIAA path: add taxes on all CD-Rs, mp3 players, audio recorders, computers, or anything else that could potentially be used to violate copyright.