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It's pretty ballsy to use a company laptop, on company time, at a company office to do work for a competitor (which is essentially what the suit is alleging).
by djrogers 10y ago
It's pretty ballsy to use a company laptop, on company time, at a company office to do work for a competitor (which is essentially what the suit is alleging).
My guess is that if he was more circumspect in this - waiting until he quit, working on it after hours on a personal computer, etc - Tesla would not be suing him over this (if the allegations are true). It's rare to see lawsuits over these things if all of the activity is taken after the employee has quit.
- baby 10y agoIf an ex company sues you, of course they will say that you did it on company time, at work, on the company laptop. That you did that or not, it's hard to prove you did not anyway.
- gondo 10y agoisn't the burden of proof on Tesla's shoulder?
- marcosdumay 10y agoYes, and that doesn't stop most lawyers from claiming it. Let's see about Tesla.
- brilliantcode 10y agoNah. > In the suit, Tesla also alleges that Anderson downloaded “hundreds of gigabytes” of proprietary data from his work computer to a personal storage device, and that he then manually hacked the timestamps on files to hide evidence of his acquisition of the information. He also wiped the iPhone issued by Tesla, the suit says, in order to erase evidence of his attempts to poach fellow employees. These attempts were met with only limited success, however, as only two employees apparently ever jumped ship to the new venture. That's ballsy.