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There i am, one minute I'm doing an average/typical dead end job, waking up the same time - going to work the same time, going to bed the same time - eating the same damn blady cereal every morning day in day out - accumulating debt, wondering "what if/only if" ....... to my partner coming up with a brilliant business idea - two of us talking about starting my our own company together, me secretly researching all we need to know at work while checking over my shoulder.. sudden excitement... he gathers all info he would need from work... we stay up instead of going to bed early and talk through the night and swap ideas back and forth about logos and improvements on the idea itself - the idea manifets and grows - we speak about him resigning next month - and next thing you know his boss found out - he was told to leave (but thankfully will be paid out) - and here we are having no choice but to pick up what we started in our minds! scary SHIT!!! at this very moment he is now at home, feeling guilty for not technically having a job - springcleaning the place and trying to do everything he can to pull strings business wise but there are things we cannot control like our registration and pending legal crap from his boss and im here at work busy blogging about it. my world has gone upside down and it feels good in a way something has never felt good to me before. im questioning that, hay - maybe we can get everything we wish for? surely fate pushed us to start this?
yes we are arguing like cat and dog, hardly getting any sleep - on the phone with web designers and potential suppliers 24/7 speaking 90% of the time about the business and then watching a bit of "Extras" and zoning out before passing out together on the couch like two parents after the first month with a newborn.
im tired, i have been having headaches non-stop - have never risked so much in my life - but i have never felt more control of my destiny than i do right now, i have never felt this motivated and inspired in my life. for once im questioning things - if they can do it why cant i? so what if im a 20something female, so what if i have no experience in this - you gotta start from somewhere dont you? where did they start?
liberating myself of old thought patterns feel great - and i think its vital if i want to embark on any new kind of journey.....this life change feels scary, but real and i guess you do only live once? and screw doubting myself - how about self-belief and self-accomplishment? |
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Posted by Lisa20 on 2008-02-21 05:29:22 | Rating: | Views: 89
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Just curious on what grounds your boyfriend was dismissed? If he got a severance package then I'm guessing the employer didn't have just cause to dismiss him as severance pay is usually only given in cases where the person didn't commit wrongdoing that amounts to "just cause"... at least in Canada.
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Posted by hairytoad2005
on 2008-02-21 07:22:59
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Well seeing that the company we are opening is in the same line of work that his company is in, they asked him to leave immediately so that they could launch an “investigation” of some sort, like check his emails and his notes/files etc. for anything that they could nail him on breach of contract i.e. divulging confidential information etc – technically we haven’t even commenced business so they wont find anything to nail us on in their little investigation…. They obviously feel very threatened – the sad thing is, is that we would not be competitors of theirs, and we actually wanted his company to be involved in our business…I guess they just take no chances?
Are you a legal guy? Because his bosses are also saying that he cannot do business in the same line of work as them but from what I have seen on the net about trade restraint provisions in general- they cannot do that? Im not sure you would even class us as their competitors in the first place
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Posted by Lisa20
on 2008-02-21 08:00:31
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I'm not a lawyer no but I do know some about the law, well at least Canadian law. I was dismissed from my job last year and I'm sure that, if I hadn't known the law, they would've tried to claim it was "just cause" and not paid me anything but, since they knew that I knew a little about the law and would probably take them to court, they gave me severance pay. As for not being able to go into the same line of work.. your former employer can't really force you not to go into the same line of work unless you, at some point, signed a contract promising not to.. which some companies do make you sign upon being hired. At least that's how it works here.
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Posted by hairytoad2005
on 2008-02-21 08:13:13
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If you want to know more about your legal rights consult a lawyer that knows South African employment law. Often you can get some free advice out of lawyers.. many will sit down with you and give a free initial consultation.
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Posted by hairytoad2005
on 2008-02-21 08:18:11
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yeah ive been looking everywhere for free legal advice, but in SA i dont think such a thing exists? but wont stop looking.. he did sign a confidentiality clause within his contract, but it seems that the confidentiality clause has a trade-restraint clause within it - but its very vague and in such broadly uncertain terms that according to it he cannot even work for someone in the same field! but i will keep on with my research because i think its beyond reason and theres no intellectual property/trade secrets to keep in the first place.... sometimes i wonder if i should have done law! its something i realy enjoy..especially since it has so many dimensions to it - but i guess thats easy to say from the outset of things!
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Posted by Lisa20
on 2008-02-21 23:47:10
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Yeah, I always enjoyed law too, though I find the criminal law more interesting than civil law. Read law texts and court cases in my spare time. Never went to law school though, partly because I didn't have the money and partly because, although I love the law, I was never really interested in defending people. More interested in prosecuting them. LOL. And you need to be a defence lawyer first before you can become a prosecutor. :)
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Posted by hairytoad2005
on 2008-02-22 03:23:19
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i enjoy nailing people too (legally:) - but i also have the habit of researching alot of stuff when i suspect someones rights are being infringed...i really enjoy it.. i left home when i was graduated highschool - i couldnt support myself for 7 years let alone pay for the studies!.. i guess it all started in school when i was busted for selling smokes - they wanted to search me and i refused, saying that i knew it was illegal for them to search me without my/my guardians consent.. 3 hours later, after trying to convince me that they "called the cops" to search me, they called my mom and she blady busted me! (she knew i sold cigarettes, she let me bcos it meant that i supported my own habit) - needless to say i was busted but i still stood my ground and one teacher (suprisingly the most strict out of the lot)actualy applauded me for standing up for myself in a room full of people who tried to intimidate me..my first job was at a small law firm and my female boss couldnt stand me, she would make fun of my portuguese surname infront of clients etc and click her fingers like i was a waiter and asked me to carry heavy boxes full of files up and down the stairs even though it was the messengers job... when i finally complained about it, i was let go. i wanted to fight it head on and take them to the cleaners - but i realised that they made me sign a "temp contract" even though they verbally told me it was a permanent contract..so i had no leg to stand on.. i was devastated..since then i do not let one thing pass my nose! when i see someone is being taken advantage of legally i cannot keep my mouth closed! like i want to inform everyone of their rights and that they should stand up for them.. very passionate about the law, especially since you can always find a loophole if you are looking for it!... but alas in real lawyer life its not all stand-up-for-your-rights its mostly procedure, long hours and paper work! i know bcos im a legal secretary and part of my job is to type up alot of audio dictations sent down from a law firm in england, i do criminal cases -bascially voice recordings of cases recorded by solicitors.. mostly boring stuff but sometimes we get a few serial killers/crazy people and typing up their statements can be quite interesting but at the same time quite depressing and sickening..you get some real kooks out there..
well look at me - babbling on!
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Posted by Lisa20
on 2008-02-22 05:28:42
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Feel free to "babble". That's what thoughts.com is for.. to express yourself and it was rather interesting babble anyways.
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Posted by hairytoad2005
on 2008-02-22 06:48:31
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