help leaving current eamployer
help leaving current eamployer
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i will be starting a new job and i want to bring some of the work i have done at my current employer to my new job. does anyone have any ideas or guidelines as to items i should or shouldn't copy and bring with me. specifically drawings, calculaitons, tech specs, etc? thanks.





RE: help leaving current eamployer
I would suggest not to carry any drawings. Some companies have a very strict rule about them.Specifically, I would not recommend taking any company specific standards Manuals and design intent.
Good Design/modeling/project management practices, calculation sheets etc should not cause any concerns.
The best bet would be to talk to your previous reporting manager and inform him what you intend to carry out along with you and let him decide.
Hope this helps and all the best for the new job!!
Jay
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My feeling has always been that "if the company paid for it, then it is theirs". No wiggle room at all. Then I got close to retiring and starting my business and started lusting after all of the resources that I'd had at the big-oil company and wouldn't have in the tiny consulting company. About 6 weeks before I left, I sat down with my boss and had a frank and open discussion. Since my new business was in support of, not in competition with, my old company and industry he was incredibly generous in what he let me copy and take. On the flip side I agreed to "help out" my replacement for the 6-months that company policy prohibited my working for them. Both sides gained a lot and I've never felt bad about what I carried with me--but it was with the full understanding and agreement of my old company.
Had I been going to a competitor their response might have been quite different. The bottom line of this case is that anything you take without your old company's knowledge and approval is stealing. Anything you copy/take with their approval is goodwill. Ask First, if they say "no" then don't take it. The alternative is somewhere between generating considerable ill-will and prosecution for grand theft.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
www.muleshoe-eng.com
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John Woodward
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I'd take nothing that is proprietary, nothing that has a company letterhead other than HR stuff.
Your question about stamped drawings is very interesting. At a guess I'd say you have stamped them on the company's behalf, so you have no right to take them.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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Otherwise, I follow the advice of previous posts.
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The caveat is that if you are indeed uncertain about it, then it's most likely to be wrong to take the documents in question, otherwise, there wouldn't be any question.
TTFN
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