Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 22, 2024

Much as the Trump family would have people believe NDA’s are common place, I’ve never, ever signed one. Nor have I ever made anyone else ever sign one.

C’mon, give him a little slack.

rouine event for Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister. Would have been run out of town on a rail elsewise…

routine that is

Only NDA I ever had to sign was to not pass on data from our manufacturing manual. But the thing had so much data in it that only a miniscule fraction applied to what I was working on. So, you could put the thumbscrew on and all you would find would be stuff that even the competitors used to build the same things I did.

Looks like he is done for.

Much like an HOA paper, I ain’t gonna sign it!

I would’ve imagined that the basement in Trump Tower would of looked better, but they probably had some cost cutting to make the lobby look nice.

Looks to me like they got him tied into that device wrong.

Good Monday morning to everyone that was lucky enough to wake up a “woke” liberal elite instead of brain dead MAGA-T trash.

Another device that had a single purpose but has mutated into a generic PIA for a larger audience. Read where NDA’s are not enforceable for about 90% of jobs that require them.

Guy was applying for employment with a firm. During interview, he asked what the job entailed. Interviewer told him he was not able to discuss the details because he had signed an NDA. Ba da bum tsch

well thank goodness or we would have NEVER heard that story.

In corporate America, they really aren’t that unusual. The question is not whether they exist,but whether they can be enforced.

Sign or die.

A super rich successful friend told my students – they are a really BIG GUN without bullets, like a patent. He invented Pong and sold 400,000 units, someone else reversed engineered it back in the day sold another 400,000 units. Said it would not be worth the mental energy to track the crooks down and sue them and was happy with the profits he made on the games he sold. Used it to do other great things – founded Chuck E Cheese Pizza.

The NDA usually comes with a golden parachute on your way out the door

Looks serious.

Reminds me of the Cheech & Chong bit “The Tortured Old Man”. No matter how hard they try to force him to “sign zee papers” he cannot because they’ve broken all of his fingers. The way the cartoon shows this guy all tied up, he is physically unable to sign even if he wants to.

While in the Army I worked in MI and PSYOP. I carried a TSSBI and that’s all I’ll say about it.

The president of the company knows he’s a crook and he’s trying to shut off damaging testimony in advance

“I’ll put the pen in your hand, that’ll help – just sign – no, you don’t need to see it or read it, just sign. There now, that didn’t hurt, did it? Good boy!” See? I know how it works …

Isn’t “backward-facing skulls” a yoga pose?

Big business and small, anything to stick it to workers. I have had to sign several in order to protect those that have engaged in indefensible behavior.

Only time anything like it came up in connection with my editorial work at home was when it was suggested I hold onto page proofs until the book is printed, after which I write and print other stuff on the back sides of the pages. That dates back to a hard-copy norm, but I still have printouts occasionally.