Rim Semiconductor Company (fka RSMI)

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Interesting comments - for a guy who supposedly just joined on with a company as an "employee" vs. a "contract employee", or do we know for sure he's not simply under contract - which seems to be his MO:

Was he a contract employee at http://www.enuclia.com/ ??

Is he still a contract employee at RIM, as he has been since April'06; has RIM "spun" the truth again? The PR makes it pretty clear - he's not a contract employee any more, right, or wrong?

"Thomas W. Moxon brings leadership to growing engineering team

PORTLAND, OR: August 25, 2006: Rim Semiconductor Company (OTCBB: RSMI), an emerging provider of semiconductors to the broadband telecommunications industry, today announced that Thomas W. Moxon has been appointed as Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Moxon brings twenty-six years of semiconductor design experience to the growing engineering team of fourteen full-time equivalent engineering employees and consultants. Mr. Moxon has been a full-time consultant to Rim Semi since April 2006."


http://www.deepchip.com/items/0431-07.html

From: Tom Moxon <tom=user domain=moxon spot calm>

Nope, John, you're not wrong to have this fear.

I agree completely. One of the reasons that I've never been an employee
of Synopsys, Intel, etc. is the "agreements" that they want employees to
sign. I might consider it if we really had employment contracts like our
European counterparts. Those tend to give both the employer and employee
more protections. However, with "at-will" employment in a "right to work"
state, most employee agreements tend to be totally in the the employers
favor. And, as you mention, often have several un-enforceable clauses.

One of the reasons, I turned to consulting on a contract basis _is_ the
ability to negotiate a contract and hence, the terms of your employment.
I always council other engineers to make sure that they have their OWN
attorneys review ANY agreement before they sign on the dotted line. The
other suggestion is to simply cross out any passages in an employee
agreement that you can't accept (and make sure to initial and date that
section). If they really want to hire you, they will usually remove any
"un-enforceable" clauses.

And always, always keep your own copies of any agreement, once both you and
the company have signed it. (I usually have my attorney sign "reviewed
by" as well.) It wouldn't be the first time a company has trotted out a
new agreement, claiming that it supercedes the older one -- when you
haven't ever signed THAT one...

After 20 years of contract work, you tend to pick up a few things...

- Tom Moxon
Moxon Design Beaverton, OR

Anyone wanting to see some pics of the family... here they appear to be... public info...

http://www.moxon.org/photos/aftertky.htm