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Comment by samstave | Hacker News Reader

This is precisely why I cringe anytime ANY executive/HR person in a company refers to the team as a "family"

No, areyou going to fucking fire Uncle Joe for being too drunk at thanksgiving and cut him off from the family will and make him sign a non-familial-secrets-disclosure promise?

Fuck that. You are not a family. HR is NEVER your friend.

I was once offered ~8K to non-disparage a company upon leaving. Yeah - no thanks.

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I had to sign on a non-disparagement agreement once. HR was like "don't worry! you're not in trouble!! please sign this for our legal dept." I'm there wondering to myself, how can I possibly be in trouble? I had just quit...

I've you had just quit, why did you have to sign a non-disparagrmeny agreement? Did they threaten you with bad referrences or blacklisting or something?

I was young and naive. They made me think they wouldn’t pay out my left over PTO pay unless I signed.

> I was once offered ~8K to non-disparage a company upon leaving.

Should've countered with 50k, see what they said.

It's more like a disfunctional family, where the parents rent the kids services to perverts and beat them up while gaslighting them...

Since I assume you did not accept. Care to tell us what company :) ?

nah, im over it...

but at the time I sent their CEO regular emails asking if he was still a douchebag.

this would be especially funny if you were the only person at the company who knew how to set up filtering on the Exchange server.

Funilly enough I could have pulled this off, but didnt...

Although my fav Exchange story was at Lockheed:

We sent an email 'on behalf of' the Head of Council (the top corp Lawyer) for our division, to our entire group.

"Come by my office for Coffee and Doughnuts!"

Droves showed up to his office asking for coffee and doughnuts.

On April Fools Day.

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