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Op says he did provide documentation but they lost it (and hadn't been backing up) after he left
by sideshowb 6y ago
Op says he did provide documentation but they lost it (and hadn't been backing up) after he left
- gambiting 6y agoOf course, but that wouldn't stop them from saying otherwise, suing and binding him in prelonged and expensive legal battle, would it?
- notyourday 6y agoLawsuits come with discovery. Discovery is a terrible thing for a plaintiff that lies in the lawsuit.
- derefr 6y agoWe're talking about who's morally in the wrong here, not whether it's a good idea to do this.
- mercer 6y agoThe person you're responding to doesn't seem to place moral considerations high on his list, in general.
- gambiting 6y agoI don't know why you'd make such an assumption about me, please expand. I think in general all of my comments on this thread have been horribly misunderstood - I was just trying to say that if the company was scummy, instead of paying him the 250k fee, they probably could have sued him instead. I'm not saying that should have done, I'm not saying it would have been the right thing to do, that he deserved it.....literally nothing of the sort. Just pointing out that the company could have made an argument against him in court. As many other people pointed out to me, it would have almost certainly failed. But I don't understand how you can deduct where moral considerations are on my priority list from this?
- bananabreakfast 6y agosure it does. the company would have to prove malicious intent beyond a reasonable doubt and not leaving adequate documentation absolutely does not meet that requirement.
- ptero 6y agoThis seems absolutely unrealistic to me. Can you find a precedent? A single precedent of the company suing an engineer (individual contributor, not a manager) for quality of work after he left? I think if they tried they would have been laughed out of court; and out of all their future contracts, too.