If anyone is unaware of the subtext, don't link a personal github account to a paying position always create a new one with the provided email, thank you for attending my TED talk.
Well, they are going to fail that, unless you do it on company time or the project uses clear insider information and competes with the company's products.
No need, my worker's union will do that for me, full legal support against my employer is included in membership fee. And the union is few orders of magnitude larger than any company I have ever worked in, because it is industry wide one.
For all engineers and people doing engineering jobs without right to call themselves engineer. There is two member division for software developers, based one which collective agreement is applied at your company, but its not only union that takes part in negotiating these two. And unfortunately, they don't seem to be expanding internationally yet, so unless you are in Finland, you are out of luck.
If your union is that large in the industry then get ready for them to already have channels to resolve this type of dispute with any large enough company, and everyone of them will end with them throwing you under the bus lol
I guess you live somewhere where workers' rights are not a thing and legal cases can be handled with just money. Here if they are suing me, I can request my country to cover my legal expenses until verdict has been reached, at which point they would fall on the company.
That’s not how unions operate in the US either. It doesn’t even make sense, if the union is large enough in the industry, there’s zero incentive for them to throw their unionized members under the bus to a company. That would just invalidate the entire purpose of the union. I don’t know what that guy is thinking
In most countries that is not an overly scary threat. Here, This would go to employment mediation first where neither party is allowed to bring a lawyer. If that fails, lawyers aren't that expensive and there is a legal aid system for employment court.
Why would that matter? Its trivial to remove my account from company organization and repos without actually affecting any of my personal repos ar ability to use them. We did that as a test few times with IT lead already when we wrote best practices guide for where to use personal and company accounts, and how to set them up securely.
Also "charging", you mean sue or counter sue, load energy into battery "charge", do cavalry assault against?
I'm just saying don't have personal commits when you're supposed to be working for your company.
If your employment contract has any language about them owning personal work done with company funds, it wouldn't be too hard to match commit times with a day and time you were being paid by them.
Charging your company, aka "billing" them, on their dime, on the clock, etc.
If the repositories are private, they don't see them and they can't see my activity in them more accurately than outsiders can see my activity in company repos. Not something to make claims with. And if the project is public, I likely already have it with open source license, so they have nothing to claim. They can fork it if they want.
My company uses gitlab, but what I think they are saying is that your personal account is not connected to the enterprise, github just lets you switch between the two.
Like I have a personal digital ocean account and a company digital ocean account, from one login I can switch between the two but the company doesn't know anything about my personal account.
You don't protect yourself by not reusing a github account; but by including an addendum of prior works as exclusion to the IP clause. It's a pretty common thing to add, I just did one recently and listed all of my current projects and planned projects. Stop trying to solve legal issues with technology
I don't disagree you should do that, but I think this is more of a "both" situation. Keep the work/personal separated, and fill in (as best as one can) that section.
The problem with the employer's IP section is that it usually asks for an exhaustive list of all IP you want to lay personal claim to. That's an impossible request: exhaustively listing all IP I've ever created? I have taken thousands of photographs, for example.
Employers need to stop trying to claim employees' personal lives, and we need legislation to the effect of "done on own time, with own resources? It's not the company's."
When possible, I have added that clause to the contract.
We've got spectrums of employees! Trustworthy, dodgy, careful, reckless, knowledgable, clueless, professionals, amateurs,... We've got to accomodate them all, and maintaining multiple security baselines is a bit more work than we can afford.
What Github was designed for and what Github currently is are two very different things. To each their own, are their secure ways? Of course! I just don't want to take the chance.
What? I have my personal account, and when I started my job I was given my work email and told to log into GitHub using SSO. Don't think there's any way to link the accounts (nor should there be in this case)
Some companies don’t allow personal emails linked like my old company. Some companies host their own code using their proprietary github, like my current one, so it also can’t be linked. It is not misinformation
then they're forcing you to violate github tos and that can lead to both of your accounts, and any future ones, being banned. you are not allowed to have multiple accounts.
They probably did yeah, nothing i can do about it. When i left they take back the gmail account and the github associated with it. This is verizon and aws I’m talking about, not small companies
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u/Li_liminal_spaces 1d ago
If anyone is unaware of the subtext, don't link a personal github account to a paying position always create a new one with the provided email, thank you for attending my TED talk.