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I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds like extortion to me. As in, "It would be awful if your business caught fire and burnt to the ground after I left the company.
by humanrebar 11y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds like extortion to me. As in, "It would be awful if your business caught fire and burnt to the ground after I left the company...."
Theft of trade secrets is severe, but I'm always dissatisfied to see criminal charges for hurting someone's business model. In this case, there is more despicable behavior that is not being explicitly prosecuted.
- trhway 11y agoI don't argue here - allowing any connection, implicit or explicit, between return of proprietary stuff and severance immediately creates impression of extortion and puts the one into very vulnerable position, and this is why doing it, even unintentionally, is a stupidity or carelesness at best.