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That's interesting. At first glance, I thought you were suggesting "just switch roles completely!" But, you aren't saying that, you are saying the new employer
by xrd 6y ago
That's interesting. At first glance, I thought you were suggesting "just switch roles completely!" But, you aren't saying that, you are saying the new employer just needs to be clever in creating a role with a different name.
But, then again, for some roles a public presence is needed, like public speaking. You can't temporarily have the role of "janitor" and go out and speak authoritatively about AWS at a conference with that role. Maybe people will get the joke after understanding the true state of these agreements.
Wait, do we even have conferences anymore?
- swyx 6y agolying is just never a good strategy. everyone talks.
- kube-system 6y agoMaybe. Are you important enough to get administrative attention after you're gone, or does your HR department only care as much as they have to complete their offboarding checklist?
- stale2002 6y agoPeople may talk, but the reality is that nobody is listening. Companies are not sending private detectives, to follow engineers to their new job, and finding out specifically what they are working on, and if the contract is enforceable or not. Mostly, people just forget about you, once you leave. People get away with lying all the time.
- kube-system 6y ago> You can't temporarily have the role of "janitor" and go out and speak authoritatively about AWS at a conference with that role. It is my understanding that you can often get away with being a lot more subtle than that. Things like throwing a proprietary product name in your title, a title that sounds more like a manager, etc.
- chilukrn 6y agoNot "AWS specialist" to janitor, but AWS to "cloud deployment engineer" or simply "member of technical staff "