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This article has to be a joke. Assuming you have a modern contract (non-compete, IP assignment), working on your startup at work is stealing from your employer.
by NateLawson 17y ago
This article has to be a joke. Assuming you have a modern contract (non-compete, IP assignment), working on your startup at work is stealing from your employer. Doing a better job hiding your tracks doesn't make it right (or legal). If you are found out, you could lose ownership of all that work.
If you're going to work on a startup while employed elsewhere, you need better separation than this. Do your day job competently and quickly, then go elsewhere to work on your startup. Get up early, do your startup stuff, then get to work at an acceptable time. Or do it in the evening. But trying to mix the two while at your employer's office is a recipe for disaster.
- randallsquared 17y agoThis article has to be a joke. Assuming you have a modern contract (non-compete, IP assignment), working on your startup at work is stealing from your employer. Well, not only that, but it's written like a joke. "Walk around so no one can read over your shoulder, if you're afraid your coworkers will read your code over the bathroom stall wall"?! (paraphrased) Really? Come on.