Re: N.D.A.'s

[RTS <gafa@xxxxxxx>]

Appreciate the reply  Bob..


*Rocky T. Squirrel, esq.*


On 5/15/2018 1:49 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>
> On 5/15/2018 6:49 AM, RTS wrote:
> > Greetings Group,
> >
> > How many of you have had customers want you to sign a N.D.A.
> (non-disclosure agreement)?
> >
> > How did you deal with it or them?
> >
> > After 42 years in the business I had one ask me yesterday for a
> N.D.A...
> >
> > I told them this morning I'd never be back..
> >
> > If they didn't trust me, no amount of paper would protect them...
> >
>
>
> I had one client in the 23 years I was a contractor ask for an NDA.
> They were developing an improved production line in a competitive
> industry.  I added a limited five year time period, and a morals
> clause that invalidated the agreement, and told them if every manager
> present didn't sign and initial the penned in morals clause I was
> walking out. It was short and fairly reasonable.  I probably did
> 400K-500K in business for or directly because of that customer after
> that.
>
> As a machinist I get people asking for NDAs and IP agreements all the
> time.  Most are so restrictive they would theoretically prevent me
> from working for anybody but them.  I tell them to go pound sand.  I
> also say any IP and or NDA combined longer than 2 pages in large font
> will be discarded unread.
>
> The additional liability agreements that started appearing from
> everybody from about the aughts were pretty onerous.  One actually
> claimed the right to be able to tell me to fire people in my employ. 
> I never signed a single one, and I notified every single one that I
> would understand if they got somebody else, but if they failed to
> honor the terms of their contract they would be liable for all losses
> and damages.  Amazingly I kept all the good customers and lost all the
> ones who were a huge pain in the ass. 50/50 split right down the
> middle.  It improved my profitability to lose the problem customers.
>