You don’t necessarily have to divulge the details of what you can’t disclose, but kinda the general idea… like you have the secret formula for Coke or something.

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  2. I’ve seen proprietary plans and processes work related. Mostly CYA stuff just to make sure that we know that *if* anything secret gets discussed or shows we have to keep it to ourselves.

  3. Lots, but it’s boring.

    Every job I’ve ever had required one that amounted to “don’t tell people how our shit works while you work here for at least a couple years after”. Not like anything top secret or publicly interesting, it’s all been fairly niche B2B software.

    A bunch for clients promising not to disclose boring but still sensitive information. Mostly cybersecurity stuff but I’ve also had access to piles of PII and things like that.

  4. An agreement with a former employer. Out district manager said she was going to weed out all the old men in management and replace them with more progressive likeminded women. She said that to three of my female coworkers and they came to me, we called in EEOC, it was an interesting time, all 4 of us had a good settlement.

  7. All business related, other than one time I got a tour of Wizards if the Coasts offices in a weekend. It was super cool, but can’t talk about it

  8. Saw something I wasn’t supposed to see in a maintenance hanger. Security guard got fired for letting me through and I got sat down with three very intimidating gentlemen who plopped an NDA in front of me.

  12. Several, all related to internet things.

    One of them stated we couldn’t even mention where we working, which was funny when you’re the only English person in a small foreign coastal town and everyone knows you as the guy from “insert major data centre here” as I obviously wasn’t a fisherman.

  14. I work as a technician on movie sets. Quite often especially on larger shows there are NDAs about the content, no pictures of the set unless it’s work-related, no social media about it etc

    Heard once about the sides (the portion of the script that is being shot that day) getting leaked and the production manager was going around with a photo of the person asking who on the crew knew them

  17. Yeah dealing with the world’s largest fruit company results in signing a lot of NDAs. Weirdly it was never a blanket NDA they were all very specific.

    Most of the other ones are just for boring shit in business/finance. You consult in IT and any time you go work for a big bank or big company most of what you work on is subject to non disclosure.

  18. Additionally I could tell you in detail about all the NDAs and what they covered but then I’d have to kill you. Not because you’d know about them or what they covered but because you’d be begging me to as I will have just bored you to the point of being suicidal.

  21. Taught English at a private school that catered to business people. Had to sign an NDA saying I wouldn’t talk about any details I learned about the businesses outside of class.

    Pretty standard. Pretty boring.

  23. My last job at a tech startup. It was just standard stuff.

    It has since expired and there’s absolutely nothing interesting to disclose about them.

  24. Twice.

    I work in insurance and was asked to provide insurance for a new startup. They thought their product was revolutionary, and a game changer and wouldn’t tell us what they were doing until we signed an NDA.
    It wasn’t revolutionary or game-changing, and there were already similar products on the market.

    Second time I was involved in the acquisition of another company

    Not very exciting really

  26. I once worked for a company that created hundreds of fake, random websites about niche interests, for a famous gambling company/poker site. The websites would all be used to point links to the gaming website to increase its SEO power.

    The content project alone was worth around $3 million.

    I had to sign a non disclosure. It’s technically expired now so I could talk about it if I wanted.

  27. I worked at a restaurant in college that wanted to protect their cheese sticks recipe. Little do they know that that recipe is used by literally a dozen other pizza places. For anyone curious it’s just pizza dough wrapped around cheese and then dropped in a fryer for a few minutes. Literally the most generic ass recipe for cheese sticks ever.

    They also had in that NDA that I couldn’t share how much I made there with coworkers or the public. This is a direct attempt to infringe on my federal rights as an employee and as such I have no issue telling you I made $10 an hour + tips as kitchen staff and that that restaurant is ran by two people who have no business running any kind of restaurant.

  29. I’ve never signed an NDA, but when I separated from the military, I gave my word to keep what I knew was classified a secret until I knew for a fact that it had been declassified. Almost 40 years later, I have kept my word.

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