• Shambling Shapes@lemmy.oneEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t sign for a weird thing.

    I was going to go on a first date when the guy asked me to sign an NDA. He was attempting to be a content creator on YouTube, tiktok, etc., and thought he needed to start “protecting his reputation”. I declined the date.

    I didn’t know he was a content creator initially. When I found his accounts, he had about 300 followers. It seems to me a person should put money into bot followers to pump up numbers before putting money into NDAs for every casual date, but IDK.

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      If it was around the time I suspect, he might’ve been worried about the me too stories that were breaking. Which means he thought his own conduct could’ve been seen as questionable. Which means it was very questionable. So bullet dodged. Hooray for not being one of his sexual assault victims.

    • ConstableJelly@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      I am impressed by your resilience that you didn’t immediately swoon over his intelligence, diligence, and confidence, which is what I would strongly presume was his actual expectation.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t have anything very interesting. I’ve been under NDA for various game betas at various times. One of them I’m still technically not allowed to even say there was a beta for me to have been a part of. Namely, the Age of Empires 2 expansion “Return to Rome” which brought Age of Empires 1 gameplay and civs into a separate game mode of AoE2, which had a secret closed beta around January this year.

    It’s not quite an NDA, but as a temporary worker for the AEC and ECQ (my state and federal electoral commissions), I’ve been prohibited from expressing a political opinion in public. Exactly how that’s supposed to work I’m not sure. I’ve usually just taken it to mean I can’t comment political stuff on Facebook between the date I accept the role and the date after the election (Lemmy and previously Reddit being pseudonymous, I’ve never cared much about following the political neutrality requirements here). People who know my IRL know my politics, so if it comes up during that time I usually just say “I’m not actually allowed to talk about that” with a wink.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone that my flatmate isn’t allowed to work for another company in their industry for twelve months after they leave their current job.

    The company is owned by a foreign national and their hiring documents were full of weird, improper regulations, including any residents of the house not revealing any of the NDA that my flatmate signed, so while I didn’t sign anything, I was technically(impractically and I can’t imagine legally) forbidden, according to a clownish NDA, from discussing all sorts of things.