Good day everyone,
Please I need your urgent advice!
A company based in Germany that I applied to recently approved my application for a job and they gave me an NDA document to sign before I begin. The excitement of securing my first job didn't make me read the terms well enough, so I just signed after glancing it a bit, just the way we barely read terms and conditions.

When I sat down to review the documents again I felt very cold, shivery and worried about the implications of violating the terms. Because a penalty for violation could land me in a court far away and ruin my entire life and reputation.

I have been very skeptical about this issues and considered quiting but the legal terms I signed still binds me for some years and kind of restricts me from show casing my current skills publicly even if I choose to quit.

Please have you had any experience signing an NDA for a job as a worker, or as a freelancer? Please I will like to have your advice on this because a case of mistaken violation could put my life at a very big risk if I don't act fast.

Baba relax....

Lol .....Na so NDA dey be......always expecting you not to work or even die once u leave their company ... the lawyers/risk managers wey dey write those things are always on Colombian cocaine...

I...most of the time the nonsense they write in those document, which they expect u to abide by often violates your rights as a human being

No NDA can prevent you from totally working and survival for years....... No matter the nonsense they wrote in that their nonsense document and u signed...

.. I've been there ...so I know what I am saying.... When a good lawyer pieces that nonsense they always write in that their NDA, u will see it has very little power in totally preventing you from working........as long as u are not releasing any trade secrets, unique line of code u wrote for them that's key to their product...... Baba u go dey alright

Yeah ..some NDA can restrict u from working for a company that does exactly the same thing as ur former coy....that's normal especially if u are part of product development/ R & D

.but that doesn't mean u wont able to use ur skill at all in another unrelated or slightly related company, or to stand on your own

kenwills:
Good day everyone,
Please I need your urgent advice!
A company based in Germany that I applied to recently approved my application for a job and they gave me an NDA document to sign before I begin. The excitement of securing my first job didn't make me read the terms well enough, so I just signed after glancing it a bit, just the way we barely read terms and conditions.

When I sat down to review the documents again I felt very cold, shivery and worried about the implications of violating the terms. Because a penalty for violation could land me in a court far away and ruin my entire life and reputation.

I have been very skeptical about this issues and considered quiting but the legal terms I signed still binds me for some years and kind of restricts me from show casing my current skills publicly even if I choose to quit.

Please have you had any experience signing an NDA for a job as a worker, or as a freelancer? Please I will like to have your advice on this because a case of mistaken violation could put my life at a very big risk if I don't act fast.

NDAs. are strictly straight confidential based so why the worrying unless you feel incompetent or not sure you'll deliver.




Wittyness.

advanceDNA:
Baba relax....

Lol .....Na so NDA dey be......always expecting you not to work or even die once u leave their company ... the lawyers/risk managers wey dey write those things are always on Colombian cocaine...

I...most of the time the nonsense they write in those document, which they expect u to abide by often violates your rights as a human being

No NDA can prevent you from totally working and survival for years....... No matter the nonsense they wrote in that their nonsense document and u signed...

.. I've been there ...so I know what I am saying.... When a good lawyer pieces that nonsense they always write in that their NDA, u will see it has very little power in totally preventing you from working........as long as u are not releasing any trade secrets, unique line of code u wrote for them that's key to their product...... Baba u go dey alright

Yeah ..some NDA can restrict u from working for a company that does exactly the same thing as ur former coy....that's normal especially if u are part of product development/ R & D

.but that doesn't mean u wont able to use ur skill at all in another unrelated or slightly related company, or to stand on your own

Thanks for your input! it is well appreciated.