I had signed an employment bond for certain years, but now I wish to leave the company. What is the best way of dealing with this situation?
Although I am not a legal expert, a lawyer would better answer your question, but I can answer this on the basis of my knowledge. As per Contract act in India, such bonds are not enforceable, since they are considered in restraint of trade.In the past, many employees have violated such bonds and in such cases, companies have resorted to different means:Allow the employee to go, take no action - In this situation, you lose nothing, the company will discharge you.Allow the employee to go, hold his Salary - In this situation, they will not pay your full and final settlement salary. Probably you will lose gratuity, leave encashments etc. and your unpaid salary.Restrict the employee from going, sue the employee - In this case, the company will go to the court. It will be a very lengthy procedure. According to the past cases, the company will have to prove that due to your layoff, the company is bearing direct costs. Further, the courts would rule in favour of a company only if the terms and conditions mentioned in the agreement are reasonable. Having a penalty clause in the agreement makes it unenforceable since it is not a reasonable term. So generally the company will be able to recover training costs only. This option is exercised only when the employee is very highly resourceful or employee is at a high ranked position.Recommendation:In maximum cases, Option B takes place. So you need to plan your exit smartly so that your salary cannot be withheld by your employer.However, you are at risks only if you are positioned at a very unique post and there is no replacement for you in the market or maybe if your services are highly important for the company projects and without you they will not be able to continue the projects.Then the company will never sue you since the legal costs are too high to keep spending it on every employee who leaves.If you think your post can be replaced easily, the best thing is you may try writing an email to the company, mentioning a notice period and ask them to permit layoff. Mutual understanding is the best way to solve problems.One problem will be that, it will be difficult to get experience letter and employment relieved letter which is actually asked for by various companies, when you join them, as a documentary evidence.
How do I request admin access on LinkedIn when I cannot see who is the current admin?
Hi there. This is a common LinkedIn issue that can only be resolved by contacting customer service. You should also know the rules for becoming a Company Admin: Administrative rights are automatically granted to the creator of a Company Page as part of the creation process. Only company administrators can edit Company Pages, add or remove other admins, and send company updates. If you have administrative rights, you’ll see a blue Edit button on the Home tab of your Company Page. Other users designated by the page creator may also have administrative rights. To request administrative rights from your Company Page admin:Add and confirm the email address you use at your company to your LinkedIn profile. (see below for accepted email address types)List your current position with the company on your profile.Go to your Company Page and scroll down until you see the Want to help manage this page? section on the right.Click See admins to see the list of admins for your Company Page.If you're a 1st-degree connection to any of the admins, you can request to become an additional admin for the Company Page. If you’re not a 1st-degree connection of any admin(s), you’ll need to connect with the admin before you can message the member on LinkedIn.If you're an agency, social media partner, or a third party working for a Company Page customer, you will need to reach out to your contact at the company to determine who the Company Page Admin’s are.If you cannot see the admin list and cannot access the page, contact customer service via email: Page on linkedin.com The requirements for setting up a Company page are as follows:You must have a personal LinkedIn profile set up with your true first and last name.Your profile is at least 7 days old.Your profile strength must be listed as Intermediate or All Star.You must have several connections on your profile.You're a current company employee and your position is listed in the Experience section on your profile.You have a company email address (e.g. john@companyname.com) added and confirmed on your LinkedIn account.Your company's email domain is unique to the company.Note: A domain can't be used more than once to create a Company Page. Because domains like gmail.com, yahoo.com or similar generic email services are not unique to one company, those domains can't be used to create a Company Page. You might consider creating a group if your company doesn't have a unique email domain. I hope this is helpful!
What are good ways to choose a professional/proper email name/address?
Email addresses when you are a student, or from your employment will have their own formats, so I will address Personal email accounts.For Personal Email accounts, I am not an expert, but here are my thoughts and reactions:I am not impressed favorably by email addresses at "HotMail" or "Yahoo."Sorry, just my opinion. They don't seem serious.I have a negative feeling of email addresses at AOL, mostly as a feeling that people using AOL have AOL as their home page and are seeing the internet through the AOL filter. My feeling is that they are new to the internet, or never got off the on ramp. Again, just an opinion.I think that the best generic email domain is Gmail because Google is a serious and highly respected company. Also their free accounts have many great features and they do an AWESOME job filtering SPAM.I agree with Andrew Hennigan that the best short names are taken, and that "JohnSmith82" is not the format.Here is an example that I would use, if your name was Andrew James Harmon. I think that shorter is better, but remember that this is a personal email, and people responding or sending messages to you will at most only need to key in your email address one time. Mostly they will just click on it. So recognizable is more important than brevity.The following options are in the sequence I would try:Harmon@AHarmon@AJHarmon@AndrewHarmon@AndrewJHarmon@AndrewJamesHarmon@A.Harmon@A.J.Harmon@Andrew.Harmon@AndrewJ.Harmon@Andrew.James.Harmon@NOTES: I personally do not like an underscore ( _ ) between words. The emails system does not like blank spaces and inserts an _ in their place.I have used capital letters as you would in normal writing. The email systems IGNORES capital letters, treating or converting them to lower case. BUT humans find it much easier to read and recognize the add address with the capitalsExample: andrewjamesharmon vs. AndrewJamesHarmonI always advise customers to use capital letters in the same way with their domain names, unless they are so short and universally recognizable that it is not needed. So fedex or Fedex are both immediately recognized, as opposed to dogwalkingandshampoowithtlc vs. DogWalkingAndShampooWithTLC
I made a website but the client hasn't paid for his hosting in 2 months and won't reply to any emails. What can I do? Can I pull the website from my server? Could I get a court order?
This is why developers shouldn’t host client sites. Always make them get the domain and hosting account, or if you set it up for them put it in their name and give them all the login information they need and instructions about renewing. This will save you a lot of problems down the road.For this one, you need to send them a notice saying that their payment is overdue and if they don’t respond in x number of days - I’d say 15 days) their site will be taken offline.You can’t just remove it without notice because technically it’s their property, and that would be denying them access to what is legally theirs.Conversely, unless you have a contract that they signed agreeing to pay you for their hosting, they don’t have any legal obligation to. This means that you’re the one on the hook, because (I’m guessing) the hosting account is in your name.Legally I don’t believe you can go after them unless they signed an agreement (or agreed in an email that you can produce) to pay you x amount every x often for web hosting. But only a lawyer in your area can tell you that, since the laws are different in every country (and sometimes every state or province).So if it were me, I’d send a notice, then package up the website in a nice little zip file and when the date on the notice comes up, email them the package, saying “Here’s your website. You will have to find hosting for it on your own.“ Then take it offline.You will also have to transfer their domain registration to them, if that is in your name too.
Does Yahoo know their mail spam filter is useless?
Helps to do it right, and be consistant about it, Mytha. You can not completely stop all spam, but you can help to put a big dent in it. First, try not to open any of them, that only makes them send more and more to you. Check mark them and click on 'Spam,' this should stop those addresses from being delivered to your inbox. Use your spam guard and block address. Look for the 'Options' link at upper right corner of mail screen and click on it Options /mail options Click on 'spam' in the list on the left. Make sure spam guard is on, by checking in the little box. Then in 'Blocked Email Addresses,' enter the E-mail address you wish blocked, in the box after 'Add a blocked address' and click on the 'add' button, then click on save changes at top left of screen. You will never get mail from that address again. This should help you to control your spam. Other tips: Do not ever open E-mail from people you do not know; and unless you are absolutely sure who it is from then treat them as spam. Opening spam alerts the sender that your address is a valid one and they send you loads and loads more of it to you. Never, ever give out your account information or other personal information to anyone. If you are on a site and you absolutely have to sign up for something, check the entire page to make sure you uncheck any lines wanting to send you any other info, notices, catalogs, ads, and the like. Added detail: Yes, spammers change one item in their addresses a lot, so you might try blocking the entire domain, by putting in *@ thedomainyouwanttoblock.com for instance: *@seeyou.com Or, if they change the domain, instead of the company name you can block the name by putting in Imatheft_inc@* Hope this helps
Please help with all the different abbreviations people use on line and in text messages?
I'm old, and do not understand all of them anymore, even though I work part time with high school kids who explain things to me. But sometimes meanings change. LOL used to mean lots of luck, but I guess now it means laughing out loud. I cannot even read some of the questions because I do not know all the different abbreviations and acronyms. Thank you.
How do you set up a database server for a small company?
So I work for a small company with about 6 computers in our office. Currently we have a network setup this way. One computer holds all of our company's data and through the "Share this Folder on Network" One of the problem is that I use this computer (with all of the data) for my work, and the computer crashed with virus or for whatever reason this second time. I feel that the data is so vulnerable to the computer failures and exposure to the virus to Trojan threat. And sometimes the network folder stops working for a reason that I do not know. ( I am a complete computer newb when it comes to networking.) 1. What is the simplest and safest method to separate this data for security and ease of access? (seperate computer? seperate external drive? is there a database computer?) 2. What is the best way to setup a backup system? Should I use Windows backup program? and what type of back up, copy? normal? what are they? 3. Is there a way to setup a program that requires the employees to login initially? I tried to look up SQL data server but I was completely lost, and its something I cannot handle. I guess I am looking for a simple solution, with some leads to how I can go about fixing this problem Thanks in advance for any help or comments.
How do I automatically force ownership of files created by employees and clients in Google Drive to my company?
This is already the case if you are using Google Apps.Google Apps has data security features built in to help you keep your business information private.If you are using Google Apps in your business, you will want to give your employees a company email like mine: cameron@crestws.com. This is a Google Apps Account. Google Apps email is viewed and answered in the gmail interface when your employees log in. Any emails they send and receive, and any documents they create are the property of your business. Sharing those documents electronically outside of your organization can be locked down. You can restrict sharing to just the emails within your domain. If your company is paperless like mine, that means better security. The only way anyone can access your company data in Google Drive is if you specifically give the access to something. Nobody is going to "accidentally" see your business information by adding them to your domain unless you give new users access to your data by adding their account to shared folders or specific documents.Google Apps Unlimited now has advanced security features to allow you scan outgoing mail for patterns such as credit card information or personal information being sent out that violated your company policy -and it will quarantine the email and alert you.To increase your security you can issue company phones and turn on 2 factor authentication. This will ensure that only your employees can log in- and they need their company phone to do it each time. By making your employees use their Google Apps company email you are in control of all the data in their accounts.You can also give customers an account on your domain to do the same. This can be done to track access to sensitive documents and effectively remove access if needed. But just as with your employees, any documents they create or work on in your domain are legally your company property.If needed, accounts can be suspended and using Google Vault tools, you can see all a users activity and data for investigations.