Pix, what does the employment contract look like? Is it silent on this issue?
Mal: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this? Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me.
'Bushwhacked'
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.
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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!