Free wine hidden in small print claimed after three months

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valleyer• 2 years ago

Fun story.

A good step forward here would be to require people that put "we may unilaterally alter these terms at any time" clauses into their contracts to also provide a redlined (or diff) version, instead of just e-mailing me with a link to a whole new terms document.

Some companies have gotten better about "summarizing" the changes, but I want to see the changes verbatim.

I know, that doesn't solve the problem of the initial document being too long and inscrutable to begin with.

a_c• 2 years ago

A company I worked for has a culture of making work openly visible. Status updates, milestone achieved, marketing initatives, everything. This is on top of the team status update that every individual teams already having, leadership sync up among different teams and CEO update. These are good intention. But people eager to impress making their update long winded. In one email I wrote, if you read this, drop me a line, I will buy you a drink. No one did.

rfarley04• 2 years ago

Funny. But, also, is he saying that privacy policies are a waste of time because no one reads them? Not sure I love the "we don't need oxygen masks on a plane because we never need them" logic (but maybe I missed his real meaning.

Free wine hidden in small print claimed after three months

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