> Kind of makes me wonder if anyone actually bothers to read what they are signing.

Nope, not typically, in my experience. I'm one of the folks who does, and it usually catches the other folks by surprise.

I signed a contract for a blog post I was writing and in the contract it said I couldn't mention that I was working with said company. But they were going to put my name on the blog post? I asked the person who sent me the contract, "should I not share this blog post?".

They changed the contract with no issues, but it showed me that they were just using a standard contract that no one ever bothered to read.