Pix, what does the employment contract look like? Is it silent on this issue?
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Maria - Jun 02, 2010 11:30:48 am PDT #3371 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Pix - Jun 02, 2010 11:30:48 am PDT #3372 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Anything I create at my work is their property. I don't know if teaching is different, but it's par for the course in IT.
That just goes against everything I know about education. Teaching is collaborative, and it is not meant to be a competition. The school does not own my ideas. I would take them to court to defend that.
Dana - Jun 02, 2010 11:30:59 am PDT #3373 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, it's the center quickedit, isn't it? I kept wondering why people were putting Parker to the right in their posts.
smonster - Jun 02, 2010 11:32:07 am PDT #3374 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Stories? Video? I am so clueless when it comes to stuff that's not on my TV screen.
Erm. Well, here's the hoodsurfing video. [link] As for the stories, they were of the he's-skeevy-but-considering-source-takeit-witha-grainof-salt type. YtoleranceforhijinksMV
Rent Love and Basketball. It's a beautiful love story. She's also hot in Something New. And The Best Man is just a parade of hot men and women. Jaysus.
::adds to imaginary Netflix queue::
The Losers is perfectly acceptable summer popcorn explosion porn, with a smattering of acceptably funny quips and [spoiler] JDM making out with Zoe Saldana [spoiler].
Ginger - Jun 02, 2010 11:32:10 am PDT #3375 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Everything I ever wrote for my employers, including magazine articles, newsletters, communications plans and web copy, was their property. Almost all my freelance work is work for hire.
msbelle - Jun 02, 2010 11:32:16 am PDT #3376 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I did not even KNOW there was a center quickedit.
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Pix - Jun 02, 2010 11:33:34 am PDT #3377 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
MFN, It's entirely possible that they have snuck a line about that in there somewhere (it's massively long), but since we can't be employed without signing it, I don't see how that leaves any of us an option.
I am seriously thinking about not using this laptop any longer and never backing up to the server. This is my life's work. Most of what I have in my files was created over the course of 14 years in this career and has grown and evolved as a piece of my practice. I refuse to just hand it over to a school who wouldn't know what to do with it in the first place. I will gladly share with anyone who wants to use it, but I still own it.
brenda m - Jun 02, 2010 11:34:01 am PDT #3378 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Kristin, check your contract for the phrase "work product".
Zenkitty - Jun 02, 2010 11:34:23 am PDT #3379 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The hoodsurfing video makes me laugh. Man's crazy.
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2010 11:35:02 am PDT #3380 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
F - Eliot - It's has a very distinctive f
msbelle! I'm shocked and clutching my pearls at you! (go girl!)
Teaching is collaborative, and it is not meant to be a competition.
My job isn't a competition either. It's just that while I'm working for this employer, my work product is theirs, period. But that's in what I signed when I worked here, and that's how I know. Which is why I'm shocked and pissed when prospective employers demand examples of previous work. Blanked out stuff, sure. But actual work product? That's skeevy!