Fesshole 🧻My employer added a clause in my last NDA stating that I was prohibited from saying anything "disparaging" about the company. Now when anyone asks about job postings I tell them, "I'm contractually obligated not to say anything disparaging about them." None have ever applied.
Ysegrim@fesshole In Germany, it's vice versa – employees have a right for an employer's reference when they leave their job, and employers are not allowed to put anything negative into it.
The effect is that there is a catalog of positive phrases that have negative meanings -- classic example is, "they endeavored to meet requirements", which translates as "they never once actually met the requirements". Or, "all colleagues appreciated their warm nature" -- "they had sex with all of them".
David Zaslavsky