Re: N.D.A.'s

[RTS <gafa@xxxxxxx>]

Started out on Ademco 1000  panels

then upgraded to the 1004
:-)

*Rocky T. Squirrel, esq.*



On 5/15/2018 10:39 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 5/15/2018 9:49 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...
>>
>
> Rocky,
>
> For me ZERO on the NDA.
> However, I have had one ask me to sign a HIPPA Contractor Agreement.
> Has to do with a medical facility that I would not disclose any patient
> information that I might see while I was on sight doing a service call.
> It was about 7 pages long and in part said that they or their
> authorized services would have the right to search my place of
> business to see if I had any information or paperwork in my possession
> relating to any of their patients, etc. etc.  No way was I going to
> sign it.
>
> What I did do was to melt it down to 3 pages of what was important
> and presented to the Executive Director who then sent it to their
> attorney and then returned it signed, exactly as I had typed.
>
> I had another customer that was already under my contract, after new
> management wanted me to sign their agreement, bla bla bal.  It was
> so bad, they wanted me to show a much higher liability insurance than
> I had, plus increase the insurance on my service van and a bunch more
> crap.  I continued monitoring for another 5 months to finish the term.
> I guess they found someone else stupid enough to sign the thing.
>
> You have the absolute right to be comfortable, period.
>
> As I have read elsewhere on a individuals tag line.
>
> "I have never lost a dollar, on a job I did not get."
>
> Makes sense to me.
>
> WOW!!  42 years.  You must be older than dirt!!!
>
> Later,
>
> Les
>
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