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Sorry if that’s confusing. Just curious if I can leave my current company for another company, and then turn around and sell my last company what my new company makes. Not sure if there’s legal lines crossed because I know lots of people in the old company. Thoughts?
Why illegal?
Probably trade secrets
They can always say no
Ask company lawyer? Isn't it obvious?
No. It’s not. That’s why I posted it. so I go get my own lawyer, use the new company’s lawyer??
Unethical. Never ever do that
Unethical? Please give me a break. Unethical? You’re CEO takes away more money than he could ever need each year and pays you shit. That’s not unethical though
Yay, another socialist: "I don't like successful people so I will steal from them". As to your question: it is not illegal on governmental level. It is corporate espionage and the company can sue you for damages and likely win. Usually when you join a company they have it in their contract. The reason they put it there is so you cannot plead ignorance - it will not dissolve you off responsibility one way or another.
I do agree with Oracle. Unethical. Remember, you define yourself as a person by your values, ethic and moral. Think twice. Then I’m really surprised that you do not have any non-competitive agreement prohibiting this type of action.
You work at Hertz dude shut up and stop taking the high road. Tf think Bezos or Gates cared about ethics when they outsourced all their IT to India. You live in a glass bubble, grow up
I don’t care about Bezos or Gates. I care about myself and yourself. You ask for an opinion on a case, I provide my opinion and take the time to answer you, so do not say to shut up at least by respect. I’m not judging you. Do whatever you want.
Not illegal at all. You leave for a vendor or partner and then sell them a product since you know they need it. Ala leave target for tableau and then you go sell them tableau since they need it
Guy at my company sold us on Company B’s product, then left for Company B.
That’s where it begins to get borderline. When an employee research’s a product and discovers that it is awesome they may end up switching to that other company. That’s fine. But if the employee hyped up some product and gets his current company to buy in to it in order to either help him get a job at the other company or because he knows he is switching already and wants to ensure they have a customer... those kind of scenarios start getting sketchy.
As long as it is not competing with company As products and does not use Company As trade secrets, it’s fine.
Anthony?
It depends. Sometimes yes sometimes no. Depends on how much insider knowledge you used, how many internal connections you used, blah blah blah.
Well how do I flesh this out? As a follow up question I guess. Because do I need to talk to a lawyer or what lol