I certainly don't know what happened in this situation, but there are also quite a few scenarios where the company may be justified. Would it be fair to compan

I certainly don't know what happened in this situation, but there are also quite a few scenarios where the company may be justified. Would it be fair to companies if any employee could create anything they wanted to, on company time, and screw the company over? Would it be fair to the company if the employee could use all of the trade secrets and intimate knowledge of the company's product to build a competitor on his/her own time, and screw the company over? It's obviously not a completely black and white situation.